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Starred by 2 users
Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 471623
Owner:
dominickn@chromium.org
Closed: Mar 2017
Cc:
█ owe...@chromium.org
█ sbirch@chromium.org
█ kings...@google.com
EstimatedDays: ----
NextAction: ----
OS: Android
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Opening page from "Add to home screen" link makes it impossible to share (or get back to full Chrome)

Project Member Reported by mdw@chromium.org, Mar 8 2017 
Chrome Version: 58.0.3026.5
OS: Android N2G47E
Device: Pixel

What steps will reproduce the problem?
(1) Visit http://komonews.com/weather
(2) Tap three dots menu
(3) Select "Add to Home screen"
(4) Tap on home screen icon for the site

What is the expected result?

The page should open in Chrome and there should be at least minimal UI controls allowing me to share a link, bookmark, etc.

I think that there should, least, be a header similar to what we show for CCT with a minimal three dots menu allowing one to open the page in "full" Chrome, as well as share the page, etc.


What happens instead?

The site opens in a "full screen" mode which makes it impossible for me to get to any Chrome UI: No tab switcher, no three dots menu, no "share" option, etc.

This means there is essentially no way of getting out of this captive experience -- one has to manually open Chrome and enter the same URL by hand.

Comment 1 by sbirch@chromium.org, Mar 8 2017

Cc: owe...@chromium.org
Components: -UI>Browser>Mobile>CustomTabs
Labels: -Pri-3 OS-Android Pri-2
Owner: dominickn@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
Thanks for the report Matt. This looks like a bug specific to the site. I'll also highlight that this repros on Chrome stable for komonews.com/weather. I get the intended behavior for other sites.

Dom / Owen -- komonews.com/weather has no manifest AFAICT, but the shortcut is being launched in standalone mode. Something funny going on in InstallableManager?

Comment 2 by owe...@chromium.org, Mar 8 2017

Mergedinto: 471623
Status: Duplicate (was: Assigned)
The fact that you can't access the omnibox easily from standalone mode is known and we have a plan to fix that by supporting CCT mode via display:minimal-ui and exposing something like an omnibox in a persistent notification.

For this specific site, there are actually a few ways sites run standalone that pre-date the manifest method. 

In this case, the site is specifying <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes"/> which was a trigger designed to tell iOS to run the site in standalone mode when launched from the home screen, so this isn't a bug.
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