February 24, 2011 at 19:06Any Chrome application can be run in the background.
Google officially introduced the wonderful Background Apps feature , which allows you to run any applications in the background, so that they continue to work even if you close all browser windows.
Previously, only extensions using Background Pages had such functionality , but now in the background you can run any application from the Google Web Store directory .
Developers can use this feature to preload information on a user's computer so that information is displayed instantly after the application is “launched”. You can also initiate various notifications, even if the browser is closed. A bunch of opportunities. Maybe someday even Google Voice calls and chat messages can be received with the browser closed.
For example, here is a test application : a book into which new content is uploaded as the author finishes writing it.
For security reasons, this option does not apply to regular sites. For details on using the API, see here .
We add that this feature was already in various builds of Chrome / Chromium, but without a description.
Previously, only extensions using Background Pages had such functionality , but now in the background you can run any application from the Google Web Store directory .
Developers can use this feature to preload information on a user's computer so that information is displayed instantly after the application is “launched”. You can also initiate various notifications, even if the browser is closed. A bunch of opportunities. Maybe someday even Google Voice calls and chat messages can be received with the browser closed.
For example, here is a test application : a book into which new content is uploaded as the author finishes writing it.
For security reasons, this option does not apply to regular sites. For details on using the API, see here .
We add that this feature was already in various builds of Chrome / Chromium, but without a description.