Public Chrome OS support was supposed to end on June 2021, but that’s now been extended. General support will now continue until June 2021, while organizations have another year on top of that. Meanwhile, Chrome Apps on Mac, Windows, and Linux were supposed to stop working this year. The Chrome Web Store no longer accepts public Chrome Apps, but Google is still allowing enterprise customers to submit new private and unlisted applications. Google cites “feedback from our customers and partners” in making these changes. However, Google is now pushing back some of the dates. Ars reports that Google is targeting mid-2018 for PWAs to start working with Chrome on the desktop.Chrome Apps were Google’s original version for having web technologies offer an “experience comparable to a native application.” The modern web is now more than capable, and a final deprecation timeline was set earlier this year.
In short, PWAs give websites app-like features, an “app icon,” and things like push notifications and offline capabilities. PWAs actually work in Chrome on Android right now, and they’re also available in other browsers too. We’ve already seen this being beta tested in previous versions of Chrome. Google is adding a new kind of app to Chrome, though - Progressive Web Apps.
Google is sending emails to developers notifying them of that change, and the company will be removing app functionality from Chrome entirely during Q1 of 2018, (except for on Chrome OS). Obviously, Chrome extensions are sticking around for the foreseeable future, but apps are deprecated as of today. Today, approximately 1% of users on Windows, Mac and Linux actively use Chrome packaged apps, and most hosted apps are already implemented as regular web apps. There are two types of Chrome apps: packaged apps and hosted apps. As Google previously mentioned, apps are being removed from the browser basically because nobody uses them.Īs we continue our efforts to simplify Chrome, we believe it’s time to begin the evolution away from the Chrome apps platform. Both are still available on Chrome OS devices, though. On the Chrome browser on Windows, Linux, and Mac, the apps section, as well as the games section, no longer appear. Now, as first spotted by Ars Technica, Google has completely removed the Chrome apps section from the Chrome Web Store. If you’ll recall, Google announced about a year ago that Chrome on Windows, Mac, and Linux would lose Chrome apps, but those apps would still work with Chrome OS. That is, until today, as Google has just plunged a dagger into what was Chrome apps. In the time since, we’ve seen some apps convert to extensions, but no steps were taken to get rid of apps entirely. A while back Google announced that it would kill off apps for its Chrome browser.
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