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Re:Signal Desktop by StavrosK on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @06:52PM (#10666760)
This is my question exactly. What features does Chrome have that are worth making the app completely incompatible with other browsers? Why is it not just a "Web app" and it's a "Chrome app" instead?
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Re:Signal Desktop by lallysingh on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @08:43PM (#10667191)
Similar to Firefox extensions, Chrome has "apps" and "extensions". Both are locally-saved packages of locally-run JS/HTML/CSS, differing in what capabilities they have w.r.t. chrome api access.
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Re:Signal Desktop by elliotec on Thursday December 03, 2015 @01:27AM (#10668099)
So... I think the question still stands.
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