![]() Hosted Apps have been around since the launch of the Chrome Web Store in 2010. They open up a remote website or service in New Tab when clicked (unless you’ve chosen to open it in a window). Hosted Apps (also known as ‘web apps’) are like big, fancy bookmarks to websites. Some examples of Chrome Apps: Google Keep, Wunderlist, Hangouts, Polarr. Packaged apps were first announced back in 2013. They are able to run offline, in their own window, and integrate with the native underlying operating system and hardware. Why expend so much effort into supporting something, bloating the rest of the browser in the process, if only a few people make use if it? Remind Me Again: What Is a Chrome App? Background: Chrome App Foreground: Web AppĬhrome Apps (also known as ‘packaged apps’ ) are Google’s turbo-charged brand of web-apps. Two, Google say not enough people use them. In fact to quote them just “1% of users on Windows, Mac and Linux actively use Chrome packaged apps”. Leading the “evolution away from the Chrome apps platform” are new cross-platform features like Web Push API, service workers, web-app manifests, progressive web-apps, and more. The gaps these apps helped to fill are, the search giant reasons, no longer there. One, Google say that the regular web can now do the things that Chrome apps were built to do. Google plans to phase out support for web apps on desktop Chrome for Windows, macOS and Linux. ![]() We’re here to walk you through what’s happening, why it’s happening, and when you’ll start to notice it happening. Chrome OS users will notice no change.Ĭonfused? No worries. In early 2018 Chrome users on Windows, macOS or Linux will no longer be able to open apps they already have installed or install new ones. Apps that are already installed will continue to work. In mid 2017: Windows, macOS or Linux users will no longer be able to install any new apps. Chrome users on Windows, macOS and Linux can only install apps added to the Chrome Web Store before this date. In late 2016: New Chrome apps will only be shown to Chrome OS users. Google gives a rough timeline for the changes in their blog post: ‘It’s important to stress that Chrome extensions are not affected’ ![]()
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