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?
Then in the search field enter: #enable-desktop-pwas-tab-strip-settings
Then choose “Enable” in the dropdown on the right side
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
Also, I’m proud of myself haha, I never really used them before and totally just taught myself how to do this … apparently they’re also called “Progressive Web Apps” (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.
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 keep trying
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
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)