Google Chrome 85 To Allow Users To Compose Tweets From Windows 10 Taskbar

In the "quick launch bar" of Windows 10, native app icons "support a shortcut menu for commonly or frequently performed tasks in the app. This menu can be invoked by right-clicking the app's quick launch bar icon," writes the Windows Club site -- adding that Mac users can use similar functionality when opening a web browser from the MacOS dock.

But now Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge are working on similar "App Shortcuts" that allow users to do things like send email or composing tweets directly from the Windows 10 taskbar or macOS dock. Slashdot reader techtsp shares their report: Right now, Chromium does not allow users to start a key task within a progressive web app through the Windows 10 taskbar. This is exactly what Chromium-based web browsers are now trying to change.

This feature will enable web developers to add support in Chromium for shortcuts defined in a Web App Manifest. As a result, Chromium progressive web apps can offer App shortcuts for their quick launch bar icon much like native apps.

The App shortcuts feature is currently in development on Microsoft Edge. Meanwhile, Google Chrome 85 is in the Dev channel.

I'd rather my quick search bar NOT be online

[lessSockMorePuppet]

It gets no use at all, because MS puts ads in it, and even when online search is disabled, it's sending your search terms out instead of only searching the local machine.

Fuck you, and fuck your spyware, MS and Google.

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[beernutz]

What does that have to do with the article? It does not mention the search bar at all.

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[Q-Hack!]

I had a dream last night, that someone hacked my twitter account. I woke up in a cold sweat thinking I actually had a twitter account.

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[account_deleted]

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As if we didn't have enough

[presidenteloco]

hastily spewed out word-chunks sprayed over the online world.

This is a bug not a feature.

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

That was exactly my thought. I don't think I've ever written *ANYTHING* that would fit in the short message system limit, let alone the tweet limits. Yes, I know they improved the interface to MMS, but it's still limited, and I'm against limits on text.

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[ArchieBunker]

That explains why the blacks love twitter so much.

Re: As if we didn't have enough

[Z00L00K]

Imagine the risks it introduces for malware and also annoying ads.

Looks like will be able to disable

[fahrbot-bot]

Note me as being -1 Do Not Want; fortunately, looks like we'll be able to disable this. From link [google.com] in one of TFA:

Feature Flag

• This work will be put behind a feature flag that will be DISABLED_BY_DEFAULT initially.
• The feature flag will be registered in chrome_features.
• Proposed flag name: kDesktopPWAsQuickLaunchBarShortcutsMenu

Security Threat

[Canberra1]

Great, allow overflows, sql injection and garbage collection on prior searches. A number of old Android phones have workarounds using methods like this. The difficulty of privilege escalation is inability to launch. Good to see that corrected - root access for all.

Irresponsibly Convenient

[Samantha Wright]

In an age where off-the-cuff Twitter posts have caused everything from celebrity scandals to geopolitical crises, further improving ease-of-access to Twitter is somewhere between profoundly tonedeaf and deliberately malicious. You already have all the data, Google. Stop begging for more!

More Pointless Horsecrap

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

What a craptastic feature. This may be the most useless bit of shit ever coded.

BEST IDEA EVAR!

[GrumpySteen]

I look forward to the countless politicians who will tweet their porn searches without realizing it.

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[nashv]

Why would that help?

85 ...

[BAReFO0t]

These "version numbers" are a joke.

If you can't answer the question "Which is the version number at which it is *finished*.", your project is pathologic, and you're adding kitchen sinks to kitchen sinks. And you're not Xzibit.

Of course we know why Google does this ... Just ask Mozilla, while they're still left alive.

Wow. Even more dumbass tweets

[Snotnose]

Now when you feel butthurt you don't even need to fire up Twitter, you can do it straight from the browser. I'm pretty sure Trump's tweets will suddenly be more impactful, and make more sense, now that he has to spend less time thinking about them.

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[Tablizer]

Launch it via the Trump icon.

More buzzwords

[Waccoon]

"progressive web app"

Stopped reading there.

Pres. DJT...

[antdude]

... I bet he'll 3 it. Wait, he doesn't even use a computer.

Don't Need Browser Creating Taskbar Links

[mikeebbbd]

If I want something like that, I can do it myself and have been able to since very early Windows. Save a web page or app (in IE) as a desktop shortcut (basically a drag n drop operation), then pin that to the taskbar if you want to. You might not want to...

Be aware that things break; in my work computer, I made a shortcut to the timesheet app in IE. Chromium Edge has now taken over html. App is broken in ChrEdge; must use IE to start. Pinned IE to taskbar and drag app shortcut to IE and it all starts fine.