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=<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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
