Google does not give them much used ChRoma apps functionality– which many users may not even remember exists –a proposal from the execution date.
Chrome apps, which are different from browser extensions, are programs that are installed in Chrome but may be standalone launched from the desktop similar to any other app. For the most part, it was her heiday more than half a decade ago (as longer). Pis the Verge, onot good example of what a Chrome app looks like in practice is Pocket, which allows users to save news articles and other textual content for lafor viewing in a standalone, detached window.
Like earlier this year, Chrome apps on Linux, Mac and Windows may stop working in June of this year. But pis 9to5Google, Google has apparently West having second thoughts. In a Monday blog post, Wrote Google that Chrome apps on those three operating systems will not close until June 2021 based on “feedback from our customers and partners. ” Organizations that for some reason rely on the apps may request an extension that they will see until June 2022, which is also if Chrome support on ChromeOS is now scheduled to end.
If all goes according to plan, then June 2022 is when Chrome apps will finally be dead as one doornail. The Chrome Web Store will at that time “stop accepting new and updated private and unlisted Chrome apps”, according to Google, as well as ending support for apps and associated APIs on all platforms.
Google first announced plans to end support for Chrome apps all the way back in 2016, citing a lack of widespread adoption (only one percent of Chrome users on Mac, Linux, and Windows had a packaged app installed) as well as patches that made Chrome much more capable of activities such as “work offline, send notifications and connect to hardware. The Chrome Web Store removed their category for apps in December 2017, as it began with the implementation of its successor Progressive web apps, which makes websites more like apps and not restricted to running on Chrome.
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Chrome extensions, which are wildly popular, will not be affected by these changes. Google in fact recommended that developers of any active Chrome apps transition to Progressive Web Apps, enhanced websites, such as extensions, and notify their users in advance of the switch.
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