Hi, I just noticed today that the “open as window” chekbox is gone, and that I can’t create “shortcuts as apps” anymore. I just read in the Brave Community that it started with Chromium 128, which was introduced a few days ago. That is very unfortunate ! I really hope there’s gonna be a way to br…

I’ve encountered the same issue. Seems they’ve changed an option with the latest update. To change it back, go to brave://flags and search for " Shortcuts not Apps". Set this to disabled and the “Open as Window” options is back. Not sure why they changed it, or if it was just changed by mistake, b…

Ah, ok. I was just researching and experimenting. There does seem to be some deviation to things compared to Chromium. I see on Chrome we still can see as below: [image] Where Brave only allows to create a shortcut, which then launches in a tab. No way to install as app or even mark as a new windo…

@Mattches and @Steeven , just want to mention I tested and replicated both on Release and Nightly. I bounced to a lot of websites and so far it just seems to be Google sites that’s preventing it.

Thank you SO MUCH for your help and research !!

@Cliardus , If you go to the desired site (say Calendar) and go (in the browser) to Menu --> Save and Share --> Create shortcut, does this not save the site as a desktop shortcut/open in it’s own window?

@Mattches When I try, it works like this: [image] Then the shortcut goes to location, which I set to Desktop: [image] Click on it and it opens in a new tab on existing window. [image] Obviously if I have all closed, it opens as window. But the big issue here as well is that Brave only has se…

Also a reminder, prior to whichever change, Chrome did have an option to set to open as window, such as in screenshot below: [image] Back to Brave What I’m imagining the above used to do is just add in the extra line on the Target of the shortcut. If a person wants to manually edit, it’s possible…

It’s not just Google sites! Very few sites have the little “Install” button in the address bar. “Create shortcut” + “Open as Window” used to allow me to turn ANY site into a PWA which I used all the time. For example, https://www.perplexity.ai/ has no install button. A week ago I could have turn…

NO! Option to open as window is gone!

Thanks for that example @jalapeno12s . Originally I tested with: https://www.crunchyroll.com/ https://www.yahoo.com/ https://anix.to/home https://community.brave.app/ https://www.facebook.com/ https://twitter.com/home https://www.reddit.com/ All of those allowed and it was only Google products tha…

I’ve opened the following issue on this for the devs to review: PWAs in Brave should parity PWAs in Chrome opened 05:13PM - 27 Aug 24 UTC (UTC) [Brave-Matt] Brave-Matt …

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