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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Feb 2018
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OS: Android
Pri: 3
Type: Bug



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[Googler Mobile Feedback] Adding the current page to the home screen doesn't save the query string within the URL

Project Member Reported by pnangunoori@chromium.org, Feb 23 2018

Issue description

Filing this issue from Buganizer: b/73723659

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Launched Chrome application.
2. Navigated to the URL: https://storyweaver.org.in/stories?bulkDownload=&language=Spanish&level=1&query=&sort=Relevance
3. From the Chrome Settings >> Tapped on "Add to Home screen".
4. Observed the shortcut on the device screen.
5. Tapped on the icon created from device home screen.
6. Observed that user is redirected to "storyweaver" home page. i.e. from https://storyweaver.org.in

What is the expected result?
Tapping on the Home screen shortcut should be redirect user to the page: https://storyweaver.org.in/stories?bulkDownload=&language=Spanish&level=1&query=&sort=Relevance

What happens instead?
Tapping on the Home screen shortcut redirects user to the page: https://storyweaver.org.in

Chrome versions tested:
60.0.3072.0, 64.0.3282.137(Stable), 66.0.3352.3(Canary)

OS:
Android 8.1.0

Android Devices:
Pixel

This seems to be a Non-Regression issue as same behavior is seen since M60.  Untriaged for further input's on this issue.


Thanks!
 
Please navigate to below link for log's and video--
go/chrome-androidlogs/815067

Comment 2 by bauerb@chromium.org, Feb 23 2018

Cc: gjorge@google.com
Components: -UI>Browser>Mobile>SearchWidget UI>Browser>WebAppInstalls
Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
I think this working as intended: "Add to Home screen" doesn't add a link to the exact current web page, but instead looks at the Web Manifest declared by the site. In the case of StoryWeaver this seems to be the manifest: https://storyweaver.org.in/manifest.json

The manifest defines a start URL of "./", which I guess resolves to the top-level https://storyweaver.org.in/ URL.

Comment 3 by gjorge@google.com, Feb 23 2018

Maybe the name in the menu option is misleading? At least to me, when I'm looking at a certain web page behind a URL, and I'm offered "Add to screen", I think I'll add to my screen the URL of the page that I' looking at.

Comment 4 by steren@google.com, Mar 13 2018

I encountered the same issue. I was using a particular Facebook URL to access my "starred friends", but now it always opens the main feed.

The fact that "Add to Home screen" sometimes adds the current page sometimes uses the website's manifest makes things inconsistent.
I would recommend at doing a variation in the working, like "Add app to Home screen" when it's a webapp with a manifest.


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