Google is going to let you use Chrome apps for a little while longer, as the congregation on Monday announced an extension to its planned timeline to end support for the software (via 9to5Google).
If you aren't familiar with Chrome apps, they're apps that you install in Chrome that assignment similarly to apps that you'd launch from your desktop -- like this one for read-it-later app Pocket. However they aren't widely culled -- Google said that "approximately 1 percent of users on Windows, Mac, as well as Linux keenly use Chrome packaged apps" all the way inadvertently in Monarchical 2016 when it inceptive nourish plans to wind lanugo support for the platform.
In January, Google said Chrome apps would stop working on Windows, Mac, as well as Linux this year (technically, the congregation set a June 2020 deadline, however it doesn't look like it cert followed through). Now, Google says Chrome apps will assignment on those platforms until June 2021. Organizations can proffer support for Chrome apps on those platforms for an spear year, acceptation they'll assignment through June 2022.
And if you're a Chrome OS user, Google will now end support for Chrome apps in June 2022 instead of June of verging year. However no matter what platform you're on, Google says support for Chrome apps will end on all platforms by June 2022.
Chrome extensions will still work, though -- as well as in fact, organizational an addendum is among among one of the options that Google recommends as an flipside for developers who now need to transition distant from Chrome apps however still want to policy agnate functionality aural the Chrome browser.
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