
In November of this year, Habré got the news that Google is developing an application launcher for its Chrome browser. At the same time, the appearance of the lunchbox coincides with the analogue from Chrome OS. In general, now the App Launcher for the Chrome browser (windows version) is officially presented.
On Windows, the launcher works the same as on Chrome OS: to launch a specific application, you do not need to launch the Crhome browser. The lunch icon is located on the Windows toolbar, and when you click on the icon, a menu appears with all the applications from Google. In general, it is quite convenient.
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So far this version of the launcher is available only to those users who subscribe to the Google Chrome Dev Channel, and is distributed only through this channel. Among other things, you need to install the
Chrome packaged app in order for the luncher to run. The self-installing application is a web application that can work without a browser, and is written using HTML and JavaScript.
If you do not want to do all this, there is another opportunity to get acquainted with App Launcher - add to the Chrome shortcut “-show-app-list”.
Via
blog.chromium.org