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rgrosberg
Jan 16, 2020Copper Contributor
Pin to desktop - Open as application
Hi, One thing I really love about chrome is the ability to pin a page to the desktop (which is now available in edge) but to open it as an application - so it has its own window, its own icon such t...
rgrosberg
Jan 18, 2020Copper Contributor
Yes, I know 🙂 what I meant is that when you pin it, it opens it up in a tab and not as a separate window, and after it is pinned it doesn’t let give you the option to open it app in a separate window anymore, the menu option isn’t even there, so you need to go to manage apps, delete the pinned site and only then can you go to the apps menu again and save it as app...
HotCakeX
Jan 18, 2020MVP
Yes it only opens it as a tab if you launch taskbar pinning wizard.
but if you do it using the method i should above, from apps, then it opens it in a separate window with the website's own color and different UI.
There are 2 different things here and they are intentionally made different because they are for different purposes.
1. installing a site as an app.
2. pinning a site to taskbar using taskbar pinning wizard.
but if you do it using the method i should above, from apps, then it opens it in a separate window with the website's own color and different UI.
There are 2 different things here and they are intentionally made different because they are for different purposes.
1. installing a site as an app.
2. pinning a site to taskbar using taskbar pinning wizard.