Google Tasks as a standalone window (or app) - google-chrome

I'd like to use Google Tasks, not from the sidebar of Gmail or Google Calendar, etc., but as a standalone browser window.
Even better would be to open it as a Chrome / Firefox webapp (i.e. a standalone non-browser window).

Simple steps"
Open Gmail or Google Calendar - Calendar is less code, so easier
Open the tasks sidebar panel
Right-click on the tasks panel and click "inspect"
In the new sidepanel with the source, scroll up a bit from the highlighted until you see
copy the iframe element (right-click, copy, copy element)
paste into a plaintext editor (TextEdit, Gedit, NotePad, etc.)
take the entire URL in " that starts with https://tasks.google.com and ends with __features__
paste it into the browser (where you are logged into your Google account).
Bookmark it.
You can turn this into a Chrome webapp, but the tasks will not load when starting the Chrome webapp directly. However, you can always open the bookmark, and then from the address bar use open in to open it in the Chrome webapp that you created.

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I like to keep Google Tasks open, but it is only offered in the sidebar of heavy website like Gmail, Google Calendar, etc.
Going through the (relatively light) HTML of Google Calendar, gave me this URL, which redirects to a valid standalone Google Tasks: https://tasks.google.com/embed/?origin=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com&hai=3&hc=4%2C1%2C5%2C9&hl=en&forcehl=1&usegapi=1&id=I0_[...]1&_gfid=I0_1659641321701&parent=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com&pfname=&amp[......]m%3D__features__
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