Chrome Apps and the Chrome App Launcher are now officially available in Chrome stable for the Mac.
The BlueJeans desktop app provides an immersive video, audio, and web conferencing experience. BlueJeans’ rpm packages are signed with a GPG key. Please run 'rpm -import bluejeanspubkey.gpg' to import the key in case package management utility asks for a missing public key. BlueJeans meetings.
Sep 05, 2013 Mac users on the Google Chrome Dev Channel are now able to download and enable the Chrome App Launcher. The feature, which was rolled out to Windows users earlier this year, gives instant access to installed web apps, shortcuts, bookmarks and search results without the need to open Chrome itself. To install the Apps Launcher extension to your web browser you need to navigate to the appropriate Chrome Store page in the host application and press the “Add to Chrome” button present on the.
Though packaged apps are nothing new and we’ve been reporting on the existence of the Chrome App Launcher since the feature first landed in Windows then the beta and dev channel for OS X, the launcher and a “new breed of Chrome Apps” are now available for OS X users.
The new “Chrome Apps” are set apart from other packaged apps in a special “For Your Desktop” collection in the Chrome Web Store. Like packaged apps in general, the Chrome Apps can make use of APIs that can access more filesystem resources, hardware, and even work offline. And it’s this last point that matters most: all the Chrome Apps “for your desktop” work offline.
Google tout that “Chrome Apps on Mac behave and feel just like native software”. Of course, given the cross-platform nature of Chrome packaged apps and the fact that these new style of Chrome Apps “for your desktop” are relatively new, that statement doesn’t always pan out.
Everything from out-of-place styling to window buttons on the wrong side of the title bar make it fairly obvious which apps aren’t quite as native as you thought. On the other hand, apps like Wunderlist very nearly nail the native look-and-feel.
The Chrome App Launcher is also making its official debut in Chrome for Mac. The Launcher is home to all of your installed apps and features a search box that can winnow the list of apps or search the web in general. The launcher was available to Chrome stable users behind a flag, but should now show up in the Dock if a new Chrome App is installed.
The powerful APIs available to Chrome Apps and the ability to run apps outside the browser make Chrome a more formidable force than ever before in taking over the desktop.
Mac users on the Google Chrome Dev Channel are now able to download and enable the Chrome App Launcher.
The feature, which was rolled out to Windows users earlier this year, gives instant access to installed web apps, shortcuts, bookmarks and search results without the need to open Chrome itself.
Squared Off Design
Chrome’s App Launcher works on Windows and Mac in much the same way as it down on Chrome OS.
You get a small, square icon that, when clicked, reveals a grid of app icons and a search box.
Application icons badged with a small arrow icon are ‘traditional’ web apps/shortcuts that open in a new tab. Apps without this are newer ‘Packaged Apps’ and open (typically) in their own window.
Depending on the number of apps you have installed you may see several ‘lines’ at the bottom of the App launcher box. These denote the number of pages available.
You can switch pages by clicking on one of these lines or by swiping with two fingers on your trackpad.
Right-click/two-finger tap on an app icon and you can perform one of several options, including specifying whether an app opens as a regular tab, a pinned tab, or full-screen.
You can also choose to view the selected item in the Chrome Web Store, or uninstall straight from the App Launcher.
(Super) Search Box
The search box does more than just search through apps you have installed. It’s able to sift through your bookmarks, fetch results from Google and show the ‘top hit’ for your term from the Chrome Web Store.
Turn On the Chrome App Launcher
As mentioned at the outset of this article: you need to be on the Chrome Dev Channel in order to be able to enable and use the app launcher.
Assuming you’re signed in with a Google account, all you need to do is hit the button below to enable the feature.
Chrome App Launcher Download For Pc
A few things worth noting:
Google App Launcher Download
- A new folder called ‘Chrome Apps’ will appear in ‘Applications’
- Packaged apps will appear in Launchpad
Stable users clicking on the button below will find themselves redirected to the webstore.