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Breaking news: apps are still in the process of being deprecated in Chrome.

I believe the parent is talking about Application shortcuts. The chrome "Kiosk" mode that allows you to create a shortcut on your desktop that opens any URL as a "WebApp".

I don't think this is being depreciated.

Yes, that's what I meant. :)

In Chrome "general support for Chrome Apps will end in June 2021', https://9to5google.com/2020/08/10/chrome-apps-deprecation/

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