Not able to search apps in chrome://apps
Reported by
jocdelad...@gmail.com,
Jun 4 2016
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.24 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Open chrome://apps or open the Chrome App Launcher (will redirect to the chrome://apps page) 2. Try to search for an app What is the expected behavior? A search box should appear to help search for apps, as there was in the Chrome App Launcher. What went wrong? There is no search box. Did this work before? Yes Chrome 51 Chrome version: 52.0.2743.24 Channel: beta OS Version: OS X 10.11.0 Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 22.0 r0 Hi! I'm a Google Top Contributor in the Spanish Forum. My opinion about retiring the Chrome App Launcher in Windows, OS X and Linux is that it is a pity because it displays apps in a much better way than the chrome://apps page does. That's because it doesn't interfere with the browsing experience (chrome://apps needs a separate tab to be opened while the Launcher is a separate small window), it displays apps in a nicer and cleaner way than in chrome://apps, and there's a very useful search box which apart from searching apps can also search other things. Furthermore, retiring it makes Chrome inconsistent, because it still exists in Chrome OS but will no longer exist in other OSs. This bug focuses on the problem with the search box. I have a lot of apps installed (because I have a Chromebook synced and there I use a lot of apps such as the Chrome Dev Editor), and it's very difficult to find any app. With the Chrome App Launcher, I could click the Launcher's icon, input the first initials of the app such as "CDE" into the already focused search box, and press enter to open the app in less than 1 second. In chrome://apps, there is no way to search for an app this quick, as ctrlf/cmd+f doesn't even work when apps are separated in different tabs. There is a huge difference. Therefore, I suggest you either bring back the Chrome App Launcher and/or add a search box in chrome://apps so this great feature is not discontinued. You rock, Chromium team!
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Jun 6 2016
Looks more like a feature request on chrome://apps page, Untriaging it so that it gets addressed. Thanks.!
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Jun 6 2016
I thought maybe as it was a feature which was part of the App Launcher (which was removed) and is now not implemented in any way, this could qualify as a regression. Anyways, it makes sense as a feature request. Thank you :-)
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Aug 10 2016
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Aug 12 2016
dbeam might know if this was discussed at some point, and the right PM to direct it to.. (is there anything on the roadmap for chrome://apps?) Of course the regular find bar (Ctrl/Cmd+f) works to some extent. It "finds" but doesn't highlight strings for apps unless they're on the first page (and not elided) - that feels kinda buggy. In a past life, you could also search and launch apps from the omnibox. E.g. - Issue 52444 "add omnibox integration for apps list" - Issue 129494 "Platform apps don't show up in the omnibox" - Issue 157748 "Remove apps from omnibox" - Issue 160156 "Unable to launch apps through Omnibox" For hosted apps (e.g. Feedly), and "WebSite" style apps (e.g. Webstore), you can just bookmark them and they show up in an omnibox search. But this doesn't work for "Bookmark" apps and "Platform" apps. However, for those, you can also just create OS shortcuts by right-clicking the app and choosing "Create shortcut.." (Possibly via the App Info dialog, and possibly in combination with chrome://flags/#app-info-dialog on Mac to actually get the App Info dialog). After that, you should be able to just search for the app in Spotlight, or via the Start menu, or Unity Launcher.
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Aug 12 2016
basically the history, afaik, is that the app launcher had a search bar and was supposed to replace this page. so we never got around to it on the NTP/apps page. ctrl+f has always been a pain in the neck on this page, so I'd support an app-specific search if we all agree that's a good way to handle. fwiw: maybe the PM for NTP4 was... jeffreyc@? and yes, we used to show bookmarks and apps in the omnibox. that was cool. dunno why we removed, maybe it was hard to usefully show the different types of results with a little icon or something? anyways, chrome://apps (previously the NTP) hasn't seen a lot of TLC lately, so not a ton of active contributors. you'd probably have to find some people to work on this.
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Aug 12 2016
We removed those from the omnibox in large part because they had exceptionally low click rates and drove out better results.
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Oct 5 2017
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, Jun 6 2016