Instead, you can treat the shortcut much like you would a normal desktop application. With a pinned website on your taskbar, you don’t have to open up your browser and then navigate to the web app of your choice. And to help reduce the barriers between you and your web apps, they’ve implement a new feature: pinning websites to your taskbar.
The only problem with web apps is that rather than sitting conveniently in your Start Menu or Desktop, they must be accessed through your web browser.Ĭhrome recognizes this inconvenience. They are interactive multimedia experiences that, for many users, replace much of the desktop software that they’ve traditionally used on a day-to-day basis. These are websites that do more than display textual content. “Open web pages in the app” is grayed out and should be enabled, but that’s clearly not the case.The folks at Google would like you to think differently about the most functional websites you’ll find on the Internet. Furthermore, it’s annoying if you’re only glancing at the current page for a few seconds and need to quickly go back to Search results.īesides the functionality bugging out, the relevant preference toggle in Google app settings > General is also broken. This Google bug sees that latter ability become the only option, and makes for a slightly slower experience that’s accompanied by a second or two of animations due to opening an entirely new app. You’ve always been able to turn off the CCT and have links open in your default browser. Original 1/11: Previously, opening a Discover article or Search result would open a seamless Chrome Custom Tab that essentially keeps you in the Google app – it featured a custom toolbar and was quite fast.
Update 11/12: This issue was fixed via a server-side update and the toggle is now usable. With the first beta channel release of 2022, the Google app introduced a bug that sees its Chrome Custom Tab break and all web pages open in your default browser on Android.
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