Google Chrome makes it easy to install Progressive Web Apps or PWAs on your machine where they look like native apps. Coming soon, on Windows machines, you’ll be able to uninstall web apps from Chrome, just like you would native apps.
As reported on Reddit, Google has introduced deeper integration between Chrome and Windows 10. Now available in Chrome Canary and Dev builds and eventually in stable builds, Chrome will place all progressive web apps in the Windows Apps list. . This means that you will be able to perform basic management of these apps from the Windows Settings menu, including uninstalling them from the system.
Update 3/11: While we first covered this upcoming feature in December 2020, Google has only just started rolling it out. The people from android font spotted the live feature on Chrome for Windows v99, with Progressive Web Apps appearing in the system’s uninstall menu alongside native apps.
However, there is one thing to note. Although it’s far from a big deal, this new feature only works for installed PWAs after installing Chrome 99.
In Chromium, this change was noted for the Edge browser, with a Microsoft engineer explaining the feature in a commit.
> PWA on Windows Desktop: Implement uninstall through OS settings.
> When the user uninstalls a PWA from settings or windows control, it also uninstalls the PWA from the browser registrar.
Unfortunately, the feature is not yet available. Instead, Windows users will need to add a command-line flag to the Chrome shortcut for web apps to show up in Settings and, in turn, be able to uninstall them. Adding “–enable-features=EnableWebAppUninstallFromOsSettings” to the target in a Chrome Canary or Dev shortcut should do the trick.
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