website shortcut {to save as app}
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in chromium there is a option in the options menu to create a shortcut of the current website and then you could even setup that specific shortcut to open without any of the ui of the browser to make it seem more like a native app. is this possible on Vivaldi?
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@zany130 If an app presents itself as a PWA (web app), this option is available by right clicking that site's tab. However this is not available for all sites.
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@LonM oh ok what are some examples? when I was writing this I was specifically thinking about Gmail
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@zany130 I know that outlook.com can do this.
There are actually 2 options for sites like that - "install" and "create shortcut".
I think its a bug that "create shortcut" doesn't appear for all sites.
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I don't get either option on outlook maybe its a bug?
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still not working for me on the latest vivaldi stable build @LonM
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@zany130 You need to enable it by going to vivaldi://experiments and enabling the Menu entries for installing Progressive Web Apps experiment. It still won't enable the option for all sites, but will for those that provide a progressive web app. Some examples of sites I know that provide this feature:
- Google Drive (not while editing documents though sadly)
- Outlook
- Spotify
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@GyozaGuy I still do not get the option anywhere even after enablin the expermint
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@Gwen-Dragon yeah I restarted and now i got twitter installing as an app. but outlook and google drive don't the shortcuts that it puts on the desktop also don't open the website
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Is there an active feature request to track progress and official development responses? If not, I will gladly send one in. Microsoft's new version of Edge has made this feature front and center and a real first-class citizen over the default chromium behavior. It feels lacking that the power-user default (Vivaldi) is lacking something that has so much potential for making the browser your own.
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Agreed, I'd like to know too. There are a ton of useful features in Vivaldi but this is one of those more basic ones and I can't believe it's nowhere in the browser... is there not any way to enable it through a flag or something? The PWA experiment doesn't even work for Twitter on mine (opens a blank page - on linux, NixOS) - and basically none of my other usual "webapps" show the option to "Install" (Groupme, Tradingview, Google Messages...)
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