What Are Google Chrome Apps?
Over the years, web browsers have evolved from simple applications used for rendering HTML documents to full-blown programming environments. They’ve become so powerful that you can barely distinguish them from operating systems today. Chrome OS,[154] for example, is an operating system that was designed for executing web applications.
Very early on, Google realized that applications made using standard web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript could also work well on the desktop. So they invented Google Chrome apps, a technology for using web technologies to create desktop applications.
Google operates a web shop for Chrome apps.[155] Also, the company has released an application launcher that allows ...
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