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If the major OSs could treat a web browser instance like a separate app, I wouldn't hate it so much. Like I want a dedicated thing on my taskbar/dock that will always take me to my google calendar. I hate having to search through browser windows (even when named) to find the right one.
I use a seperate browser for aws console to make it quicker to find.
But I do love being able to have more than one tab per app (like for aws console) which most standalone apps don't support.
For splitting the app in the taskbar I found it useful to "install" the PWA (you got to find the hidden option in chrome for that..), if it's supported by the website... It still uses the same cookies and addons, but at least it doesn't easily get merged with the main browser window and behaves like a proper desktop application. I mainly use firefox though and it doesn't support PWAs (easily, at least). It's a shame it's not more common, because it's a much better way to run software than the many electron apps, each having their own chromium installation (no download, no long installation process, full sandboxing, and you can have addons & adblockers affect the pwa!)
you can create shortcuts of web addresses and it'll open that address in your default browser
Yeah, but finding it the second time is the problem. For most things I want to get back to the part of the app I was on. Google cal is simple, so doesn't have that issue. But aws console would. And most other apps too.