Chrome apps aren’t going away, but Google is killing the Chrome app launcher for competing platforms.
Google announced on Tuesday it’s getting rid of the Chrome app launcher on OS X, Windows, and Linux. A tool released in 2013, the Chrome app launcher offered a container for browser-based apps designed to work offline. Google explains that next week Chrome will no longer enable the launcher when users first install a Chrome app, and in July, existing instances of the launcher will be removed.
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