Google previews Chrome app launcher for Macs
Google added an App Launcher preview to Chrome on OS X that lets Mac owners run the company’s new packaged apps from the Dock.
Users of Chrome 31 on OS X, currently in the “Dev” channel, the least-polished version of the browser, can access the souped-up Web apps from the launcher, which is automatically placed in the OS X Dock with the installation of any packaged app.
Packaged apps are uber-Web apps that are much closer to “native” software—the kind written for a specific operating system, such as Windows or OS X—that can run without a live Internet connection and call on several Google APIs (application programming interfaces) and services barred to Web apps.
Written in HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), packaged apps run in a stripped-down frame minus any browser “chrome”—the address bar, toolbar, menus—so that they look more like a native application on Windows, OS X or Linux.
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