OK I have been digging around. I was reading https://askubuntu.com/questions/31427 hoping it would give me some clues, and it didn't
HOWEVER another web search or two and I found https://askubuntu.com/questions/910494 and here's what I came up with that seems to work: 1) Open Chromium 2) navigate to chrome://apps 3) right-click on icon for the created application 4) choose "Open as Window" 5) If the window doesn't behave properly in the favorites bar, delete it from Favorites and open it again and re-add it to favorites. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1895199 Title: web apps no longer launch into separate windows Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: 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] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1895199/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
