Public bug reported:
Chromium-browser updated on my system yesterday and today I noticed that
unlike the previous version (84.0.4147.105-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) when I
click my "favorite" shortcuts for Google Messages, Google Contacts,
Google Calendar, and a website for a local radio station, the "app"
shortcuts no longer create separate independent windows, but instead
open a new tab in a Chromium browser window.
Strangely enough, the web app shortcut for GMail still opens correctly
in a separate browser window.
As I mentioned, this seems to be a regression from version
84.0.4147.105-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 which got installed on my system
yesterday.
I am concerned because broken webapps is one of several features I will miss
when I must upgrade this system from bionic.
(I have another system running 20.04 and of course the snap version of
Chromium does not do web apps reliably nor does the snap version work
with the KeePassXC plugin.)
Just in case this is just an incompatibility with existing shortcuts, I
just created a NEW shortcut for the radio station web site and the new
shortcut exhibits the same behavior.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: chromium-browser 85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-47.51~18.04.1-generic 5.4.55
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-47-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.17
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Sep 10 14:10:26 2020
DetectedPlugins:
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-07 (156 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64
(20200203.1)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium-browser: [deleted]
** Affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic
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web apps no longer launch into separate windows
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