The Chrome App Launcher allows you to launch your favorite apps right from the desktop.
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- X: Chrome's new app launcher, which has been available on Windows for awhile, is now available on the Mac in Chrome's Dev and Beta channels. With it, you can launch Chrome apps right from your.
- The Chrome App Launcher allows you to launch your favorite apps right from the desktop.
Chrome Apps and the Chrome App Launcher are now officially available in Chrome stable for the Mac.
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.
A fan of the simple ‘start menu’ on show in Chrome OS? You can use it on Windows and Mac computers as well — and it offers more features than you might think. As well as launching your online apps, you can perform quick calculations and run web searches from this pop-up box as well.
The App Launcher is now an integrated part of Chrome, so you can activate it by installing any Chrome app inside the browser, from Gmail to Plex. Add a new app to Chrome and the launcher should appear automatically, though you can easily find it at any time if you need to.
Chrome App Launcher Mac
On Windows, it’s under the Google Chrome heading on the All apps list. On a Mac, you can find it inside Launchpad. Either right-click and choose Pin to Taskbar (Microsoft machines) or drag the icon to the dock (Apple machines) to make the App Launcher a permanent part of your shortcut setup.
The Launcher shows all of your installed Chrome apps. On the Windows version of the browser, you can add websites to it by choosing More tools then Add to taskbar from the menu when viewing the site in question — tick the Open as a window box to have the site behave like a normal app.
App Launcher Mac
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As well as launching apps from the pop-up window, you can run web searches and run simple calculations. Unit conversions are also supported: Try typing “10km in miles” and the answer appears in the list underneath. Something else you can do, which you might not know about, is putting your apps in folders — drag one shortcut on top of another to create a new app folder.