Chrome Web Store - What's a web app?

[zlckmsoldchannel]

Holy crap this was good for 2010 welcome back

[DewMan]

@bipenettt An app is a website that does a task. For example, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Google Docs are all web apps.

Where as extensions are little programs that you install on your browser to give it more functions. For example, the LastPass extension gives your browser the function of saving your passwords or the Google Dictionary extension lets your browser look up words without leaving the page.

[Grafiqall]

I have a chromebook, it lags when you try to play 1080p youtube videos.

[cwhazzoomain]

@bipenettt Apps are like full webpages with more advanced features and graphics. Extensions are just add ons to chrome that let you play around with random features.

[GeorgeChar]

i believe that advanced games and stuff like that will be seen at least 6 or 8 years later

[sinephase]

@darthfrik - sounds good, we'll see... execution in the cloud will more than likely be pretty limited at first, and I won't be surprised if more complex software has to be stored locally to run well, in which case you'll still have to download, update and execute that code locally... same thing if you want something for offline use...

[monkey]

If you type the full name of the app in the bar it will come up with a box icon in the list.

[Loubatron]

Looks really great! But when's the website going up? Reply please! (:

[arienh]

@evJeremy Yes, but these are developed for Chrome, not Internet Explorer.

[holistic_memory]

how do i install microsoft, I hate this lap top called chorme

[Skuu]

@darthfrik In the chrome keynote they showed at least one game that cost money.

[Nnnvcg]

@yudanielk they're written in either HTML or CSS

[existingdark]

Good for you, but I don't want to deal with it. Where's my option to remove the "apps" from my new tab page? I tried editing the html, but I found no "save" feature.

[yudanielk]

@Nnnvcg Oh... I thought Google was going to create a new model for the web apps that target Chrome kind of like what they did for Android.

[aaronslens]

@Madfoot713 Which is good. The extensions are really what makes Google Chrome the best. Google chrome might become more popular than Firefox's addons.

[bybriany]

@bitcloud1 That's the point. Google is trying to say that a lot of websites these days do tasks that would normally be a program you download and install on your computer. Gmail is not a typical website that you read. It's an email client.

[SomeAtoms]

@OnlyJustUnknown There is LOADS of ftp extensions for Google Chrome! Just search for ftp in chrome web store :)

But yeah, I guess their is some extensions that doesn't exist for google chrome and that besides the better configuration options in FF makes it to a good competitor, but right now I choose the speed of Chrome. Especially the instant start up time!

[MrTV]

will move after you remove other bookmarks from tools bar and have private browsing as default option

[rodrigoDSTC]

You can't say this is an appstore, this is just an index of webpages you can easly find on Google without "installing" them...

[SomeAtoms]

@leevitron You havn't tried Google Chrome Webstore, thats for sure!