This provides a quick and easy way to get an app-like experience for any website.ĭo you like to pin your favorite web services and websites to the taskbar? Leave a comment below and let us know which sites you do this for in the comments below.Elvin: The logo hadn't been updated in eight years, and we wanted to give it a refreshed and modern look to reflect how Chrome has evolved as a product. Or, maybe you don’t want to take the time to find and install the official apps. You might not like how an app works and prefer the web experience. You can always get the official desktop or UWP apps for web services, but not all websites have an app. Here is a look at the cleaner and more mobile app-like design of the site:

Just type: /amp to the end of our homepage URL and pin it to a convenient location. If you want to pin groovyPost and make it feel more like a mobile app than a web page, here’s a cool tip. The screenshot below is running Pandora, Netflix, and groovyPost as individual web apps on Windows 10. They work independently of the normal stack of open Chrome tabs and windows as a typical app would run. The icons look professional and like they are Universal apps pinned on the taskbar. Just right-click on an icon and select Pin to taskbar or Pin to Start from the context menu. In the example below I’ve pinned some of the most popular web services.

The web app icon is created on your desktop and from there you can put it on the taskbar or Start menu. Then head to More tools > Add to desktop.Ī second window will pop up where you can name the shortcut and make sure “Open as window” is checked and then click Add. You can pin any website you want, and examples of web services you might want to pin as an app are YouTube, Pandora, – even groovyPost! Head to the site you want to pin and then click the Settings icon in the upper-right corner. However, since Chrome and Windows have evolved, the process is different and this article reflects those changes as well as extra tips. Note: We showed you how to do this using Chrome and Windows 7 back in 2011.

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