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
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!
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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
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.
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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)
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,
(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
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.
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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.
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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 )
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