Suggestion: hide or control installed app URLs in browser history

[hanguokai]

In my test on the latest Chrome stable, when users use an installed app, app's URLs with titles(or same url but different title) are saved in browser history. This causes these urls with titles to be displayed in

• browser history: chrome://history
• most visited sites(top sites) : new tab page
• recently closed tabs: a browser built-in function
• or related functions in browser extensions

Why this is a problem?

• Many installed app use standalone display-mode. But when users click above UI parts, these urls will be opened in browser display-mode, that is not the expected display-mode.
• Some web apps are very much like native apps, rather than a web page. These installed apps are independent from browser and should not be recorded in the browser history, which makes no sense.

Suggested solution In manifest file, add a "save_history_to_browser" item(or other name you like), which value is true|false. This item controls whether app's url will be saved in browser.

[dmurph]

Can you actually file this on the manifest spec repo? This repository isn't for general manifest feature requests. These issues should only pertain to features that are in the incubations spec or in hosted explainers.