Opening PWA opens Brave

[MarioMatschgi]

Description

Installing a PWA, quitting Brave and then launching the PWA causes Brave to open as well with a new window

Steps to Reproduce

1. Go to a PWA (My own PWA, Spotify)
2. Install the PWA (click "install")
3. Close the PWA and Brave
4. Open the PWA

Actual result:

The PWA opens AND Brave opens as well

Expected result:

The PWA opens BUT NOT Brave

Reproduces how often:

Easily reproduced, just open any installed PWA while Brave is quit

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	1.25.72 Chromium: 91.0.4472.101 (Official Build) (x86_64)
Revision	af52a90bf87030dd1523486a1cd3ae25c5d76c9b-refs/branch-heads/4472@{#1462}
OS	macOS Version 11.4 (Build 20F71)
JavaScript	V8 9.1.269.36
User agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.101 Safari/537.36
Command Line	/Applications/Brave Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave Browser --enable-dom-distiller --disable-domain-reliability --no-pings --origin-trial-public-key=bYUKPJoPnCxeNvu72j4EmPuK7tr1PAC7SHh8ld9Mw3E=,fMS4mpO6buLQ/QMd+zJmxzty/VQ6B1EUZqoCU04zoRU= --sync-url=https://sync-v2.brave.com/v2 --lso-url=https://no-thanks.invalid --variations-server-url=https://variations.brave.com/seed --enable-features=WebUIDarkMode,AutoupgradeMixedContent,SafetyTip,LegacyTLSEnforced,ReducedReferrerGranularity,PasswordImport,PrefetchPrivacyChanges --disable-features=NotificationTriggers,HandwritingRecognitionWebPlatformApi,FledgeInterestGroups,IdleDetection,FlocIdComputedEventLogging,HandwritingRecognitionWebPlatformApiFinch,InterestCohortFeaturePolicy,LiveCaption,AutofillServerCommunication,SubresourceWebBundles,NetworkTimeServiceQuerying,LangClientHintHeader,WebOTP,SignedExchangePrefetchCacheForNavigations,SharingQRCodeGenerator,TrustTokens,DirectSockets,InterestCohortAPIOriginTrial,FledgeInterestGroupAPI,AutofillEnableAccountWalletStorage,FirstPartySets,FederatedLearningOfCohorts,EnableProfilePickerOnStartup,TextFragmentAnchor,SignedExchangeSubresourcePrefetch,TabHoverCards --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end
Executable Path	/Applications/Brave Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave Browser
Profile Path	/Users/Mario/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default
Variations	aed3cac0-3f4a17df7146a73c-3f4a17dfc63a3c82-3f4a17df

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release?

• Yes

• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel?

• Yes

• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel?

• Yes

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?

• No

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards?

• No

• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?

• Yes (Chrome 91.0.4472.101)

Miscellaneous Information:

If this is a Feature and not a Bug: A setting for reverting back to the original behaviour (That opening the PWA does not open Brave) would be nice

[jeannnemelanie]

Same issue here, with 2 differents PWA 😢
Any news for this ticket ?

[MarioMatschgi]

Same issue here, with 2 differents PWA 😢
Any news for this ticket ?

Sadly not - still same issue, even on the newest version of chrome
Also quitting the browser while a PWA is opened will also close the the app, even though they are separate "apps" (in macOS Task-switcher, TaskManager, doc, etc.

Seems to be an issue of chromium itself

[jeannnemelanie]

Yes I can confirm, same thing is happening with Google Chrome PWA. And quitting the browser while a PWA is opened will also close the the app in both Chrome & Brave. Hope Chromium will work on it.

[ChaliceChore]

Still no solution for this?

[webknows]

Here's to hoping...

[rabinadk1]

I also can reproduce the issue.

[JStrategic]

Interesting that this still hasn't been addressed. Seems to be a long standing issue.

[AntoG87]

Same happens to me. Is there any update on this? Thanks