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Edge Chromium's URL bar randomly appear inside web app
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The bar you are talking about is not the address bar but is a bar that appears when you are on a different website from the website that you have installed as an app, that bar shows the name of the different website you are in.
I would recommend you to visit this conversation where I have given a solution to this problem which also appears on Amazon Prime Video with more details.
As you did not understand my earlier post or my earlier post was not clear, I am showing you a reply which was given by Microsoft Engineer johnjansen who replied to this conversation which is related to Netflix and describes the same issue you are facing. The reply is as follows:
This has to do with the scope of the PWA. You'll notice that when you clicked to install the PWA you were probably on a screen like netflix.com/browse. But when you are in the PWA and click to watch a video, that redirects to netflix.com/watch, which is technically 'out of scope' for the PWA and causes that black bar across the top to show up.
The easiest workaround should be to simply log out of netflix in the browser so the URL is back to just the netflix.com url and install from there. That way the scope is the entire domain rather than just /browse.
-John
- Sorry, I did and it does not solve an issue at least for non US citizens I suppose. Here in europe on login screen my url goes www.netflix.com/uk
After logging in, each and every other instance of url is not built upon /uk, rather the universal one www.netflix.com/browse so the url bar appears everywhere because of the missing /uk part of the url
In that said I cannot access any universal domain that would work on the entire netflix experience, meaning I cannot access pure www.netflix.com url without redirection to /uk or /browse depends of being or not being logged in.
johnjansenMicrosoft
Hrcorl thank you for that new wrinkle on the scenario. I wasn't aware that you could not navigate to just netflix.com, but are always redirected to /uk. If that is true even though you are not logged in, then that definitely increases the priority of this issue.
-John
Hrcorl Same here (Japan), and pretty much everywhere else outside the USA.
For myself, I solved it using a VPN (which others have suggested).
I have a top tier paid one, but there are plenty of free ones (including Opera's browser's built-in one) which should work for this "one time setting".
I agree with others though, into that shouldn't be something to recommend to just "everyone", and that this is an issue because "Netflix" is pretty much the first web anyone is going to try installing as an App (since it works so much better than the Native Windows App...).
Daniel
TheShaunSaw Thank you for your suggestion, but it doesn't work for https://music.apple.com/. It redirects me to https://music.apple.com/us/browse regardless whether I have logged in or not. Do you have a solution for such condition?
