Chrome now runs background apps [Article]

Treehouse
writes on March 2, 2011

Google Chrome has just released a killer new feature: Background Apps.

This allows web apps to do two things:

Push Growl-like notifications. An example of this is new mail and chat notifications in Gmail.
Pre-render content in the background for instant viewing.

Here’s an example app to check out.

roger pack (lds choir) on April 14, 2011 at 5:42 pm said:

please please somebody use this for gmail so we don’t have to wait for load time. Please? [oh and google calendar too]

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Bartholemy Mickiewicz on March 7, 2011 at 11:05 am said:

Nice blog and nice collection.
http://amigo2amigo.com/Byrnesbland/blog/33462/

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Johndeminal Johndeminal on March 3, 2011 at 5:02 am said:

code is process writeing stetment .
http://tonedetox.org

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tannerc on March 2, 2011 at 3:58 pm said:

Very cool. The more fun and useful stuff Google adds to Chrome, the more I’m leaning toward using it as my default browser over Firefox. Anyone else feel the same way lately?

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- Ryan Carson on March 2, 2011 at 4:42 pm said:
  
  I’ve been using it as my default for about a year now. They update it at an insane pace.
  
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  - Dave Doolin on March 4, 2011 at 9:04 pm said:
    
    I switched it to default the first time I used it. The first site I hit after installation loaded in seeming milliseconds. Never looked back after that.
    
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Frankie Laguna on March 2, 2011 at 3:04 pm said:

Ryan: I believe you have a typo: “Push Gowl-like notifications” should be “Push Growl-like notifications”.

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- Ryan Carson on March 2, 2011 at 3:21 pm said:
  
  Doh, thanks 🙂 Fixing now.
  
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