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Another point I found important is the "App tabs" feature. They'll be letting you designate certain tabs as Apps, which will keep them permanently on the left o

by edanm 16y ago

Another point I found important is the "App tabs" feature. They'll be letting you designate certain tabs as Apps, which will keep them permanently on the left of all the tabs, turn them into small icons (instead of normal sized tabs), and make them permanent (can't close or navigate away from them). I love this, since I already do this with a lot of applications (I have Gmail, Google Calendar, Wave and Facebook always open).

nooneelse 16y ago
Chrome lets you throw such pages out into their own window with no browser navigation controls, and it helpfully puts a shortcut to that experience in your choice of locations. ("Create application shortcuts...") I think I recall some talk that this might be going away in future versions. But I certainly hope not, as it helps cloudify the desktop rather nicely when you stop seeing such web applications as only existing in browser-like windows.
brianwillis 16y ago
Google Chrome already allows you to do this by right-clicking a tab and clicking "pin tab". It's kind of pointless in its current form, like a awkward hybrid of bookmarks and tabs. I'd like to see some sort of notification system added to the icons of pinned tabs (like icon badges in Mac OS X) so you could see how many unread items you have in Gmail, Google Reader, etc. No idea how you'd go about implementing such an idea though.
- robin_reala 16y ago
  Fluid ( http://fluidapp.com/ http://fluidapp.com/ ), a site specific browser, has a system in place for icon badges showing unread numbers, etc., so it must be possible. I’d guess this is Greasemonkey-style site-specific JS code though.
- scott_s 16y ago
  Thank you. I watched the Firefox video and thought "Hey, those app tabs are neat." It's nice to see Chrome has them.
- CoryMathews 16y ago
  Chrome took the pin tab from opera.. (like everything else) However the dev of chrome (not sure if its in stable yet) allows you to have these custom apps already. When you install them they also give the app extra permissions such as display tray notices and geo location. This way the app does not have to ask for them every time.
- sesqu 16y ago
  There's this Firefox add-on, Badges on Favicon, that never got far off the ground: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8121 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8121

by edanm 16y ago

nooneelse 16y ago

Chrome lets you throw such pages out into their own window with no browser navigation controls, and it helpfully puts a shortcut to that experience in your choice of locations. ("Create application shortcuts...") I think I recall some talk that this might be going away in future versions. But I certainly hope not, as it helps cloudify the desktop rather nicely when you stop seeing such web applications as only existing in browser-like windows.

brianwillis 16y ago

Google Chrome already allows you to do this by right-clicking a tab and clicking "pin tab". It's kind of pointless in its current form, like a awkward hybrid of bookmarks and tabs. I'd like to see some sort of notification system added to the icons of pinned tabs (like icon badges in Mac OS X) so you could see how many unread items you have in Gmail, Google Reader, etc. No idea how you'd go about implementing such an idea though.

robin_reala 16y ago
Fluid ( http://fluidapp.com/ http://fluidapp.com/ ), a site specific browser, has a system in place for icon badges showing unread numbers, etc., so it must be possible. I’d guess this is Greasemonkey-style site-specific JS code though.
scott_s 16y ago
Thank you. I watched the Firefox video and thought "Hey, those app tabs are neat." It's nice to see Chrome has them.
CoryMathews 16y ago
Chrome took the pin tab from opera.. (like everything else) However the dev of chrome (not sure if its in stable yet) allows you to have these custom apps already. When you install them they also give the app extra permissions such as display tray notices and geo location. This way the app does not have to ask for them every time.
sesqu 16y ago
There's this Firefox add-on, Badges on Favicon, that never got far off the ground: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8121 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8121