![]() ![]() Navigate to a web app that you use regularly, like Google Play Music, Google Inbox, or whatever. (This trick works in Linux too, Google says, but it does not work on the Mac, just one of a thousand reasons why I find OS X to be less usable than Windows.) While I’m sure it’s true that most Chrome users launch web apps from within Chrome, that’s almost certainly because they are unaware of the fact that Chrome lets you launch these web apps directly from the taskbar in Windows. “With Chrome’s continued emphasis on simplicity and streamlining browser features, the launcher will be removed from those platforms. “We’ve found that users on Windows, Mac, and Linux prefer to launch their apps from within Chrome,” Chrome engineering director Marc Pawliger explains in (Marc Pawliger). (It makes more sense in Chrome OS, where it is in effect the Start menu.) But Google has seen the light. The Chrome App Launcher is a curious beast: It provides a second Start menu-like UI that only works with Chrome web apps. But that’s fine, since there’s already a much better way to launch Chrome apps in Windows alongside native applications. Google announced this week that it will be retiring the Chrome App Launcher on Windows (and on Mac and Linux). ![]()
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