Google launched Chrome Apps for Chrome OS and the Chrome browser for Windows in September, and now they've finally landed with an app launcher for Macs. Let's be clear: Chrome Apps are not the web ...

A packaged app are those apps that sit in your tray on Windows or OS X, and operate independently of a Chrome browser window. They can run offline, and even open up in their own window.

Chrome/Windows/Chrome OS: Google today rolled out a new category of Chrome Apps, a.k.a. Chrome Packaged Apps, that run on the desktop and feel more like native apps than ones tied to the browser.

Google's Chrome 'app launcher' for offline browser apps is coming to Windows, with Mac and Linux to follow in due course. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Feb. 21, 2013 at 4:00 a.m. PT.

This new generation of Chrome Apps is as Web-centric as ever, but with some key improvements: They work offline. They store data locally. They interact more fully with your PC’s hardware.

Google yesterday launched its new packaged apps, dubbed “Chrome Apps,” for the Mac, making good on a promise from September when it kicked off testing. Chrome 31 for OS X, released three weeks ...

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Recently, Google has pushed for more offline apps in the Chrome Web Store. This means they operate just like an app on your computer, but they exist entirely in the Chrome browser.

The new Chrome App Launcher for Windows may look like a Googlefied Start Button, ... though they may appear as standalone offline programs, packaged apps can work only if you have Chrome installed.

Google spruced up its offline Gmail Chrome application Jan. 12, adding a settings page and shortcut support, and making the app snappier overall.

In the same week as the debut of Mozilla's new Web-based app store the Mozilla Marketplace, Google is pushing for developers to deliver content to the Chrome Web Store that can be accessed even ...

Google yesterday launched its new packaged apps, dubbed "Chrome Apps," for the Mac, making good on a promise from September when it kicked off testing. Chrome 31 for OS X, released three weeks ago, ...