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Status: Untriaged
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OS: Linux , Windows , Mac
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



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Feature Request: Make "packaged apps" shippable outside of Web Store

Reported by trusktr@gmail.com, Jun 27 2018

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.99 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
N/A

What is the expected behavior?
Desktop apps (and mobile ones) made with Chrome are not a bad idea. Perhaps Web Store wasn't the best way to ship them. 

It'd be great for Chrome-based apps to be shippable without the Web Store, submittable to Windows/macOS/Ubuntu app stores as individual apps.

There's already Electron, but Chrome apps could be cool too, especially if it would be easy to make them standalone and not coupled to Web Store.

What went wrong?
It's not implemented yet (AFAIK).

WebStore page: any desktop app

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 67.0.3396.99  Channel: stable
OS Version: OS X 10.13.4
Flash Version: 

There could be a feature of Chrome apps that detects if Chrome is already installed, and would then use the installed version for runtime. If it isn't installed, Chrome could be installed transparently (the runtime, not the UI). Chrome (the web browser) could itself rely on the runtime if it is already downloaded.

This could be awesome.
 
Labels: Needs-Triage-M67
Cc: susan.boorgula@chromium.org
Labels: -Type-Bug Triaged-ET M-69 Target-69 FoundIn-69 OS-Linux OS-Windows Type-Feature
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
trusktr@ Thanks for the issue.

From the above description, this looks like a feature request to make packaged apps shippable outside of Web store.

Hence marking this as Untriaged for further updates from Dev.

Thanks..

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