Google Chrome experiment to make PWAs more discoverable on desktop

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Google implemented a new experimental feature in the company's Chrome web browser recently that tries to make Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) more discoverable to users.

Google's Chrome web browser supports PWAs already; Google launched PWA support in desktop versions of Google Chrome in 2018 so that users of the Chrome browser may install these PWAs directly.

The option to do so is hidden in Chrome's main menu and there is no indication currently whether a site or service is provided as a PWA or not in Chrome's main interface. While you could check manually each time by clicking on menu in Chrome to see if the "install" option is listed in the menu, it is not the most comfortable option.

Google seems to agree. The company launched a new option in Chrome Canary, the cutting edge version of the browser, that indicates the existence of a Progressive Web Application in the Chrome UI.

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