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Google Is Building a Way To Launch Chrome Apps Without Installation

Posted by timothy on from the playing-the-long-game dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google really wants Chrome apps to take off. Not only has the company added rich notifications, in-app payments, and an app launcher into its browser, but now it's developing ephemeral apps that launch by just clicking a link. There are two separate components here. Ephemeral apps (you can enable this under the chrome://flags/#enable-ephemeral-apps flag) let you try a Chrome app before installing it. Linkable ephemeral apps (under the chrome://flags/#enable-linkable-ephemeral-apps flag) meanwhile allow you to launch said apps from hyperlinks."

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  1. We all slated Windows for doing this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm as guilty as anyone else, but when MS windows did this it was a major security problem, is this really any different?
    Launch a program by clicking a link? Did we not call people retards every time they did this?

    It seems like every new platform just repeats the same crap from every previous platform. Vendor bloatware should have been the blatant warning sign.