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

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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](https://news.thewindowsclub.com/pwas-to-let-you-send-emails-compose-tweets-directly-from-windows-10-taskbar-courtesy-of-app-shortcuts-100745/) from the Windows 10 taskbar or macOS dock. Slashdot reader [techtsp](https://apple.slashdot.org/~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](https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5706099464339456) is currently in development on Microsoft Edge. Meanwhile, Google Chrome 85 is in the Dev channel._