Recently we covered Chrome PWAs can be uninstalled from Settings or Control Panel, Google is making another change related to Progressive Web Apps. As of the latest, the company is testing hiding the status bar in PWAs.
When you hover over a link on a web page in a web browser, the link destination will appear at the bottom. That’s the use of the status bar and it’s very important. It helps users to know which website they’re visiting before clicking a link.
Now the Status bar is going away for Chrome PWAs as far as the latest experimental feature in Chrome Canary hints.
To see this change right now,
Chrome may remove the Status bar from Progressive Web Apps
- Launch Chrome browser
- Visit chrome://flags
- Search for ” Desktop PWAs remove status bar”
- Click on the dropdown arrow and select Enabled
- Restart the browser.
Open Chrome, install an app.
Head to chrome://apps and launch the web app by double-clicking.
Hover a link with the mouse to notice it no longer shown at the bottom.
As the flag description notes ” Hides the status bar popup in Desktop PWA ap Windows”. Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS affected by this change.
And PWAs in Chrome on Android and IOS will continue to show status bar unless Google pushes the change to these platforms too.
What’s your take on the status bar change related to Desktop PWAs in Chrome? Let us know in the comments below
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