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  1. Bug #1732482
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 1732482

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WBGSReject (wbgsreject) wrote :

I opened a bug 1863897 that is now closed as a duplicate of this one which concerned the A2HS (add to home screen) functionality of PWAs (progressive web apps). If you use the A2HS functionality it should create a desktop icon and open the PWA in a Chromium standalone window that looks similar to a desktop application. However as per this bug, it does not work.

To reproduce, there is an MDN page https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps/Add_to_home_screen that links to a PWA that has a A2HS prompt:

https://mdn.github.io/pwa-examples/a2hs/

In the snap version of Chromium the resulting desktop icon is missing and the link does not work. This did previously work in the deb package of Chromium, so I suspect it is caused by the migration to Snap but have not proved it.