Re:Chrome has updated - How to fix the changed New Tab page
by derefr on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @05:11AM
(#6443427)
It's pretty clear what Google is doing here, and it means that trying to keep the old Apps page will be fighting the tide.
For all the betas of the App Launcher until its recent release, the ability to select apps from within Chrome itself disappeared altogether when the App Launcher feature was enabled.
Google seems to think that 'Chrome apps' should not live in your 'web browser' (Chrome), but rather should just be a kind of regular app, for which Chrome is the backing platform -- like Java apps, or Air apps, or Silverlight apps, etc.
Apparently this was a bridge too far for users on release, so instead of moving to this new mode of thought all at once, they're giving us this intermediate form -- apps accessible from within Chrome, but much less conveniently.
In short: they're incentivizing you to use the App Launcher. Get used to it; they'll probably make it the only way soon!
For all the betas of the App Launcher until its recent release, the ability to select apps from within Chrome itself disappeared altogether when the App Launcher feature was enabled.
Google seems to think that 'Chrome apps' should not live in your 'web browser' (Chrome), but rather should just be a kind of regular app, for which Chrome is the backing platform -- like Java apps, or Air apps, or Silverlight apps, etc.
Apparently this was a bridge too far for users on release, so instead of moving to this new mode of thought all at once, they're giving us this intermediate form -- apps accessible from within Chrome, but much less conveniently.
In short: they're incentivizing you to use the App Launcher. Get used to it; they'll probably make it the only way soon!