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Feature Request: Allow Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to Open in Incognito Mode

See original GitHub issue

Description

Allow PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) to open in incognito mode.

Steps to Reproduce

After adding a shortcut to the desktop and making sure it opens in a window, editing the properties (via desktop) to include the --incognito option and launching the PWA seems to have no effect.

Expected result

This may not be a feature of Chrome, but I’d like to see it in Brave.

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave		1.19.88 Chromium: 88.0.4324.96 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	68dba2d8a0b149a1d3afac56fa74648032bcf46b-refs/branch-heads/4324@{#1784}
OS		Windows 10 OS Version 2009 (Build 19042.746)

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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srirambvcommented, Feb 2, 2021

How do I remove a pwa now?

Go to brave://apps and right click on the PWA you want to remove and select Remove from Brave. This should uninstall PWA’s.

As for the original request I don’t think its possible for PWA’s to run in Incognito mode. PWA’s “pretends” to be native apps so ideally works as an app rather than like a browser window where you get normal/private mode.

cc: @bsclifton

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pitsicommented, Feb 2, 2021

Thank you for the clarification. Now that I know the reason it does not work, I will stop trying 😄