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Silver Contributor

Aug 23, 2020

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What happened to back button and refresh button on YouTube PWA

I today installed YouTube PWA from the Microsoft Edge Canary channel and what I saw is the back and refresh buttons on the left of titlebar are missing. I only saw it on the YouTube PWA. Has anyone e...

Microsoft Edge Canary

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johnjansen
Aug 24, 2020
TheShaunSaw thanks for the feedback on this. It's actually by design at present. The YouTube manifest includes the displaymode property for "standalone" which the w3c spec indicates should not have an address bar nor other UI components, though browsers MAY include a "status bar" and a "back button". The displaymode that includes refresh and back is called "minimal-ui". I'm not sure why youtube opted for standalone.

I'll do some follow up with that, as well as possibly reconsider our design and start including the back button if nothing else...

-John

eguif

Steel Contributor

Sep 15, 2020

Hello Gryphou

Of course, this is far from a solution

As I mentioned, alternatively you can use the F5 button to refresh the page

You mentioned that you just want to go back to the previous page
Again, alternatively you can go to edge://flags/#edge-backspace-key-navigate-page-back and activate this flag

After that, you can use the backspace button

Gryphou

Copper Contributor

Sep 15, 2020

eguifWhat version of edge do you use ? I don't have this flag. I'm on the v85.0.564.51

eguif
Steel Contributor
Sep 15, 2020
Hello Gryphou

Probably this flag has not yet arrived in the stable version
I use the dev version 87.0.634.0
- cheeseleader
  Steel Contributor
  Sep 16, 2020
  eguif
  
  Really the PWAs now appear the to be stripped version of websites. They don't have the functionalities that you have in browsers and they don't have the elaborate feature set of native apps.
  
  Ironic because they were supposed to be Best of Both Worlds.