[wish] Create Web Application Shortcuts on the Desktop like in Google Chrome

[dotnet]

I would love to see the the Chrome Feature "Add to desktop / taskbar" in Vivaldi. The only difference to the original Chrome feature should be a visible address bar in the new window, because sometimes you want to copy the url and use it somewhere else. There is a video which shows the usage of the chrome feature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4ahfwy5U3M

[dotnet]

There is a workaround to create such "standalone applications":

You can create a normal shortcut and use the parameter "app" similar to chrome.

C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe --app={website_url}

Sample for napster:

C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe --app=http://app.napster.com/

For whatsapp you need the incognito mode because of the bad browser validation on the whatsapp site.

C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe --app=https://web.whatsapp.com -incognito

You can also use the Chrome Feature "Add to desktop / taskbar" in the first step and change the shortcut afterwards to vivaldi. In this way you will also get a nice looking icon of the website in the taskbar.

[rgs]

I've tried both methods above and they don't really work very well. My main issue is that they only work properly when launched from within Vivaldi , and when closing the main Vivaldi windows, all the apps close as well..... With Google and other Chrome variants, the shortcuts behave like proper apps and each runs independently.

I would urge the developers to seriously consider adding this function, as its the one feature keeping me from using Vivaldi now. People are using more and more web applications, and a shortcut that loads the application without browser clutter is more and more important.

It shouldn't be hard to implement as its a part of Chromium and most other Chromium/Chrome variants leave it in....

Hoping for a favourable outcome as Vivaldi is really good, but without this, useless to me and many others...

[Ayespy]

@rgs - Chromium is dropping support of non-hosted apps completely. This means full app API support will be increasingly missing in Chromium, which means Vivaldi would have to take on full responsibility for this code on its own in its own branched version of the engine, over and above building, developing and maintaining the browser itself

[rgs]

Thanks for confirming that,.,,, terrible news though!

[gaur]

@gwen-dragon You guys on vivaldi just reply for the sake of replying anyhow, right? Did you even try opening vivaldi://apps before suggesting the method?
There are no apps listed as Google phased it out. It is useless until you are using Google Chrome with chrome://apps.
Why don't you just accept that the feature is NOT PRESENT?
I created my account just to reply to this answer after reading similar answers (trust me, more than 100 times) where some moderator is replying without any idea of the feature that is absolutely absent in Vivaldi currently (or may be forever).

[QuHno]

@gaur said in [wish] Create Web Application Shortcuts on the Desktop like in Google Chrome:

Why don't you just accept that the feature is NOT PRESENT?

Because 10 months ago when the answer was given the feature was still in Vivaldi.

Hint: There is an information directly above when a reply was made.