[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1895199] Re: web apps no longer launch into separate windows
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 2007652 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2007652 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 2007652 [snap] PWA don't launch as applications, just another chromium window -- 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: Confirmed 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= 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1895199] Re: web apps no longer launch into separate windows
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- 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: Confirmed 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= 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1895199] Re: web apps no longer launch into separate windows
I tried to link this bug to https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1125020 and Launchpad complained it does not recognize the bug tracker. Weird! -- 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= 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1895199] Re: web apps no longer launch into separate windows
I believe I found the relevant Chromium bug! https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1125020 On a different system I have been trying to fix my webapps (I have not found a way to make webapps open in separate taskbar icons in Ubuntu Groovy), and was digging through Chromium bug reports. I went to chrome://flags/ and found chrome://flags/#enable-desktop-pwas-migration-user-display-mode-clean-up which specifically mentions https://crbug.com/1125020 which resolves to the link at the top. This sounds similar to what I was experiencing that broke the windowing of webapps after a software upgrade, and it's also just about the right timeframe. I'm not on the same system and may not be able to test that one but I turned on the flag and fortunately it didn't break anything. Unfortunately it hasn't fixed my other bug. -- 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= 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1895199] Re: web apps no longer launch into separate windows
Thanks Tommy for the detailed report of your investigation. It sounds like for some reason the preference to open your favourite webapps in separate windows was lost with that update. It could also be unrelated to the update itself, just a bug that was triggered at that point in time. Possibly related: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1124300. And for future reference, this chrome URL is useful to inspect webapp details: chrome://internals/web-app -- 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= 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1895199] Re: web apps no longer launch into separate windows
For step 5 above I also sometimes deleted the app from chrome://apps and re-created it. SO the actual bug on this issue seems to be some discontinuity with my old webapp definitions because I have been able to make them work again by recreating them again. -- 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= 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1895199] Re: web apps no longer launch into separate windows
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= 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1895199] Re: web apps no longer launch into separate windows
On the above, I have discovered that if I double-click the weird .desktop file, I get a message asking if I should trust and launch it, and when I agree to trust and launch, the name changes to the intended name AND the icon of the file changes to reflect the proper "webapp." For example, messages.google.com gains the messages icon and renames to "Messages." HOWEVER it STILL doesn't open in a separate window in my old user account. I presume there's still some cruft somewhere. -- 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= 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1895199] Re: web apps no longer launch into separate windows
(sigh) I created a new user account on my old system. I can create new windowed apps. (webapp?) I went back to my regular user account and moved ~/.config/chromium/ (514.3MB) to the desktop. I could not open existing webapp window bookmarks; they don't even go to the correct URL. There must be some stuff in there to link the bookmark to the correct URL SO I deleted the fresh .config/chromium folder and copied the desktop one back and then I used Chromium's Settings --> Advanced -- Reset Settings and ~/.config/chromium/ shrank the folder to 148MB I can get the old bookmarks to open the correct URL but they still don't open in a separate window. I also notice that when I create webapp links Chromium creates a file on my desktop called something like "~/Desktop/chrome- kjbdgfilnfhdoflbpgamdcdgpehopbep-Default.desktop" I don't remember it doing that before the recent update? If it did I must have deleted them long ago. I'm beginning to wonder if the cruft is in GNOME somewhere? I need to do some work at the moment but I'll try some more things later -- 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= 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1895199] Re: web apps no longer launch into separate windows
I just tried it in a fresh Bionic VM and yes it worked there. When I get back to the other machine I'll see if there's some cruft in ~/.config/chromium/ or somewhere else. That hard drive has been running Ubuntu for a decade or more so there's plenty of cruft to choose from. -- 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= 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1895199] Re: web apps no longer launch into separate windows
I tested this in a 18.04 VM, and I cannot observe the problem. When creating a webapp launcher, there's a checkbox to decide whether the shortcut should open in its own separate window, or as a new tab in an existing chromium window. This preference appears to be respected. -- 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= 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1895199] Re: web apps no longer launch into separate windows
I meant to say the previous version running on my system was 84.0.4147.105-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 The new version with the regression is 85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 (I got these versions from /var/apt/history.log ) -- 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= 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
