Can I use multiple tabs with an installed app?

Today I just learned how to set up one site I go to a lot (wsj.com) as an installed app in Brave. Now when I left-click on a link in the app, the entire app displays the page that was linked to. Is there a way to get the installed app to display a linked page as a second tab, within the installed app? When I right click a link in the app and select display in Brave tab, what happens in that new page will be displayed in my normal brave browser.

Can I get a link to open up as a second tab within the installed Brave app?

Hi @paulri

To do so…

  1. Go to: brave://flags/
  2. Then in the search field enter: #enable-desktop-pwas-tab-strip-settings
  3. Then choose “Enable” in the dropdown on the right side
  4. Then hit the Relaunch button (note: It will then restart your browser)

If that doesn’t do it repeat steps above but instead of step 2. put:
#enable-desktop-pwas-tab-strip
and enable each of the ones that show up with that (note: the last part “-settings” removed)

AND/OR if you have an issue…
Just be sure when you are installing it
(you may have to uninstall and reinstall)
to check the “Open as tabbed window” before re/installation :wink:

If you need assistance with how to uninstall an installed PWA:

Also, I’m proud of myself haha, I never really used them before and totally just taught myself how to do this :pray: … apparently they’re also called “Progressive Web Apps” :wink: (that’s what the PWA stands for)

Thanks, but I’m not seeing the option to “Open as tabbed window” when I install as an app.
This is all I see, when I try to install either wsj.com or brave community:

I did go into brave flags, and enabled the only three items that came up when I searched flags for " pwas-tab-strip" Actually, 2 of them were enabled and I only had to enable the last one.

When I search for " #enable-desktop-pwas-tab-strip", all I get is a message: “No matching experiments.”

I uninstalled my Brave wsj.com app a few times, but no luck. I still don’t see the option to open in tabs, when I try to install it again.

Hey @paulri

Try just searching “desktop PWA tab” and even if they are showing as enabled by default, just enable them in full anyway and see if that makes a difference, it’s seemed a bit finicky for me too when I was first trying …it literally is experimental stuff too (and again I’m new to it too) so sometimes it can be a bit weird and frustrating but :man_shrugging: keep trying :wink:

Tried that. I explicitly set to enabled, 2 or 3 options that were previously set to something like “default (enabled)” or what not.

Still can’t get tabs in my web app.

Well thanks anyways.

Oh I am in brave nightly. I probably should have mentioned that before, but I didn’t think it would matter.

Hmm maybe the nightly has something to do with it… I don’t claim to be an expert… I went looking around the webs and fiddled with a couple things and it worked for me, I’m not on the nightly but it did take a little tinkering tries :man_shrugging:

Just found out that it isn’t Nightly. I can’t do the same thing in Brave release version.

I just noticed this post (see below) with @Saoiray

This might be why the tabs aren’t working… maybe it only works with the native “laptop button to add PWAs” rather than the work-around ones you recently learned about… see if you get a different result creating it with the Brave Community PWA laptop logo method

Yup, that’s the problem, I just tried it on a non-native PWA (the create my own method option, not the laptop built-in button) and don’t see the tabbed window option available… so I doubt that’ll work… easiest solution is to just create a favourite/bookmark shortcut and a new window (rather than use the app function) :man_shrugging:

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