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OS: Android
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Type: Bug



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Creating shortcut icons using"Add to Home Screen" failure

Reported by user...@gmail.com, Jan 2

Issue description

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Click on Ellipsis
2. Click on "Add to Home Screen"
3. Change to another Web Page, then check icon has saved desired page.

What is the expected behavior?
That one should be able to click on created icon and bring back the desired webpage.

What went wrong?
The created icon does not hold on to the webpage.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 71.0.3578.99  Channel: stable
OS Version: 
Flash Version: 

I have 2 phones one has Android 9 and the other has Android 5.0. They both have the same launcher. The phone with 5.0 has no problem. I have also tried different launchers and different browsers but it is the same result with them all. Finally the phone with Android 9 with the issue is a Nokia 7+.
 
Labels: Needs-triage-Mobile
Cc: jbanavatu@chromium.org chelamcherla@chromium.org
Labels: Triaged-Mobile Needs-Feedback
Tested this issue on Android and observed that clicking on shortcut icon opens the desired page.

Steps:
1.Launched chrome and navigated to www.wikipedia.org
2.Clicked on 3 dot menu
3.Clicked on Add to Home Screen >> Shortcut is successfully added to home screen 
4.Observed that that clicking on shortcut icon opens the desired page.

Chrome versions tested:
71.0.3578.99

OS:
Android 9.0

Android Devices:
Pixel XL

@User008: Could you please look into the above steps and let us know if anything is missed from our end. Screencast on reproducing the issue would help in further triaging.

Thanks!


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