Google Chrome makes it very easy to install Progressive Web Apps or, PWAs, on your machine so that they look like native apps. Soon, on Windows machines, you’ll be able to uninstall Chrome web apps in the same way as you do with native apps.
As detected by a Reddit user (via Android Police), Google introduced a deeper integration between Chrome and Windows 10. Now available in the Canary and Dev versions of Chrome and eventually in the stable versions, Chrome will place any Progressive Web Apps in the list of Windows apps. This means that you will be able to do basic management of these applications in the Windows Settings menu, including uninstalling them from the system.
In Chromium, this change was seen for the Edge browser, with a Microsoft engineer explaining the feature in a commit.
> PWA on Windows Desktop: Implement the uninstallation through the operating system settings.
> When the user uninstalls a PWA from Windows Settings or Control, he also uninstalls the PWA from the browser register.
Unfortunately, the feature is not yet available. Instead, Windows users will have to add a command line flag to the Chrome shortcut in order for web apps to appear in the settings and, in turn, to uninstall them. Adding “–enable-features = EnableWebAppUninstallFromOsSettings” to the target in a Chrome Canary or Dev shortcut should resolve the issue.
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