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This one I'm fine with since WebAssembly is a worthy replacement, but I'm still annoyed at Google discontinuing Chrome Apps. Some examples of specialized apps I use all the time that would require a native app otherwise: - Signal Desktop - TeamViewer - Postman - SSH client - Cleanflight drone configuration tool It was one of the best things that happened to Linux desktops in a long time and removing it hurts users an…
Postman recently released a Native App, fwiw
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> It was one of the best things that happened to Linux desktops in a long time and removing it hurts users and makes them less secure. It would be more accurate to say it was the best thing to happen to your use of Linux in a long time, and it looks like even that is only because you're trying to use a bunch of closed source, non-cross-platform stuff. I also disagree that it makes users less secure. The teams working…
Your pique is noted, but as more anecdata I use Chrome Apps for Soundcloud and Mixcloud, where it's nice to have a Chrome window that won't collect tabs and have a recognizable icon. I have dozens of tabs open in each of several Chrome windows and it can be a pain to find the one I want. Insert complaint about not being able to switch to a tab from Chrome Task Manager.
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It doesn't do anything that Javascript didn't already do. By the way, why do you think HTML5 is a problem?
Not the OP, but with HTML5 video in modern browsers, you can't simply escape obnoxious auto-play videos by disabling/never installing RealPlayer/Shockwave/Flash/etc.
Because things are built to standards now, we can build those tools to manipulate them the way YOU want (which includes making them not auto-play) so the move from Flash and other 'black box' plugins to HTML video has been a HUGE win for usability!
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Chrome OS has no native SSH client, but Google published a NaCL based SSH client: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec... It's useful outside of Chrome OS if you have a security perimeter based on TLS with ACLs and auditing already in place and you want to use it for SSH as well: https://github.com/zyclonite/nassh-relay https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/assets... Google use…
I wouldn't call it a "Linux Desktop" if you can't run a standard SSH client. Chrome OS is it's own beast.
I know, I know. It's crazy talk....
Looks like Mozilla won this fight. When Mozilla didn't accept PNaCl and Pepper API proposed by Google, Mozilla went down the ASM path which now led us to Web Assembly being the general way forward.
Yup, when you consider that WASM can be polyfilled with Asm.js it's pretty obvious where things were headed.
Looks like Mozilla won this fight. When Mozilla didn't accept PNaCl and Pepper API proposed by Google, Mozilla went down the ASM path which now led us to Web Assembly being the general way forward.
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> It was one of the best things that happened to Linux desktops in a long time and removing it hurts users and makes them less secure. It would be more accurate to say it was the best thing to happen to your use of Linux in a long time, and it looks like even that is only because you're trying to use a bunch of closed source, non-cross-platform stuff. I also disagree that it makes users less secure. The teams working…
Your pique is noted, but as more anecdata I use Chrome Apps for Soundcloud and Mixcloud, where it's nice to have a Chrome window that won't collect tabs and have a recognizable icon. I have dozens of tabs open in each of several Chrome windows and it can be a pain to find the one I want. Insert complaint about not being able to switch to a tab from Chrome Task Manager.
Taking Soundcloud as an example, Clementine (and probably most media players) can stream it just fine. Having a Chrome App is nice, but it isn't providing anything that isn't already available. I'd even say the Chrome App is a step backwards, because with Clementine I don't need a separate app for every music service.
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Chrome and Firefox probably dont run on their OS.
Then they have bigger problems that they should be getting on top of urgently.
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But OP is specifically calling out how this hurts Chrome OS, but it doesn't seem to affect that platform, from what I can tell.
One way it affects it is to reduce the overall market for Chrome apps, reducing the incentive to make an app in the first place.
The only upside I can see is that CrOS is soon going to support running Android Apps which may save it, but even then... Maybe they'll figure out a way to run Electron/NWJS apps on ChromeOS?