"Open tab in PWA" no longer works [Regression/Bug]

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In builds prior to 105.0.1320, I could move normal tabs from my browser to the PWA, if an App was installed.  For example, if I open a Google Doc in my browser and want to send it to the Google Doc App/PWA, I would simply select the "open in App" icon and it would ask me to confirm the App.

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In 105.0.1320 and later, this still shows up on the blank docs page (docs.google.com), but no longer works if I have opened a document.

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I'm no longer seeing this behavior in Canary. Are you still experiencing it?

@josh_bodner I can confirm the bug still exists in 105.0.1339

 

Key thing to note is that the popout to PWA works if you're at the root domain (i.e., https://www.office.com/launch/word or https://docs.google.com)

 

But, if you've actually opened a document in a tab (i.e., https://onedrive.live.com/edit.aspx or https://docs.google.com/document/d/) it will fail to give the option to move that document from a browser tab to the PWA.

 

I definitely know the google docs option worked in past builds of Edge.  And, I believe Office did as well, though I never used the Office PWAs consistently enough to remember definitively.

If this is something that worked in the past but no longer does, then I agree it definitely sounds like a bug. I'll let the team know!

@josh_bodner correct, it used to work on subdomains of Google Workspace or Office Docs links and I used it frequently.

Can confirm that this is still an issue in Release version. If you have, for example, YouTube installed as a PWA, and try to move a video from the main browser into the pwa, it opens the YouTube homepage instead.