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Google to kill off Chrome apps almost everywhere don't panic Google is not killing its Chrome web browser Google is dropping its Chrome apps platform from everywhere except Chrome OS according to Google this massive change will affect approximately 1% of Google Chrome users on Linux Mac and Windows if you're not part of that 1% you might not know about Google's Chrome apps so let's explain back in 2013 Google introduced Chrome apps these were apps built with web technologies like HTML Javascript and CSS however they worked outside of the Google Chrome browser so if you were switching apps on your computer you'd see something like Google Hangouts separate from your browser google recommends developers move their chrome apps to the web since web technologies have matured support for Chrome apps will be removed over the next two years on Mac Windows and Linux by the second half of 2017 the Chrome Web Store will no longer appear on those platforms in 2018 Chrome apps will no longer be loadable however on Chrome OS the operating system that powers Chromebooks Chrome apps will remain supported and maintained for the foreseeable future the company says developers can still create apps for Chrome OS or they can start building Android apps back in May of this year Google announced Android apps would be supported on certain Chromebooks that's it for this tech news update I'm Aya's Akhtar you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet.com slash