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“The app
launcher makes Chrome apps easy to open outside the browser,” writes
Google Chrome Engineering Director Marc Pawliger, “but we’ve found that
users on Windows, Mac, and Linux prefer to launch their apps from within
Chrome.”
Instead of
compartmentalizing Chrome’s feature set, Google is opting to make the
Web browser itself easier to use by adding features like push
notifications for Web pages, thereby nullifying the long-forgotten
notification center. If you’re an avid user of the Chrome app launcher,
fear not, as the software will be slowly eradicated over the next
several months, which you’ll be reminded of in a “notice” from the
Alphabet subsidiary.
In the next
few weeks, you can expect to no longer see the launcher each time a
Chrome app is installed, and in July, the launcher will be wiped
entirely from the confines of the Internet.
Nevertheless,
this by no means indicates that you’ll no longer be able to download
Chrome apps. Instead, they’ll be conveniently packaged in your browser,
accessible either by clicking the bookmark bar’s “apps shortcut” menu or
by typing chrome://apps in the omnibox.
Considering
the Chrome app launcher originally released for Windows in July 2013,
its termination will undoubtedly serve as a disheartening celebration of
its third anniversary. On a more optimistic note, the launcher is here
to stay on Chrome OS, which quite honestly is the only place it made
sense to begin with. Perhaps now we’ll see the day when Chrome doesn’t
gnaw away at my laptop’s precious RAM and battery life.
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Source : Gabe Carey / Digital Trends
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