Google Chrome will quickly allow you to set up any webpage as a desktop app in your Mac, identical to Apple’s Safari browser does in macOS Sonoma (by way of Android Police).
The brand new characteristic was noticed by X (Twitter) consumer Leopeva64 within the newest Chrome Canary construct, which features a new choice known as “Set up web page as app,” which could be present in Settings ➝ Save and share. Web sites reminiscent of YouTube and Reddit which have already got their very own internet apps may even mechanically seem as non-obligatory installs on this menu.
Choosing the “Set up web page as app” choice invokes a immediate to “Set up app,” as proven within the picture beneath. Internet apps are mechanically saved in an Purposes subfolder known as Chrome Canary Apps, the place they are often optionally dragged to the Dock in macOS.
Presently, Chrome’s implementation of internet apps is extra subtle than Safari’s, because it supplies not solely a simplified toolbar with navigation buttons, but additionally a pared down settings menu with choices together with Copy URL, Open in Chrome, Uninstall, Zoom, Print, Discover and Edit, and Solid.
The characteristic is because of Chrome’s long-standing help for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), which Google initially embraced as a alternative for Chrome apps on the Google Play retailer.
Customers can check out the characteristic earlier than it goes stay within the steady construct of Chrome by downloading the newest Canary 124 update and enabling two new flags. To take action, copy and paste the next hyperlinks into the handle bar:
- chrome://flags/#web-app-universal-install
- chrome://flags/#shortcuts-not-apps
Chrome 123 is at the moment in beta and is predicted to be launched to the general public imminently, so PWA help for webpages will not be within the upcoming model, however the subsequent steady construct after that.
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