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Being more productive using Chrome Apps
How to use Google Translate, Grammarly, and other chrome extensions in desktop applications, like Slack and run web applications in a separate window
You may have heard about Google Chrome App or Chrome App, Google insists that it has discontinued this feature and even remove the Google Chrome Apps section from Chrome Web Store but you can use some of the remaining capabilities of this feature in Google Chrome Browser.
The main idea is by using the Chrome Apps feature of Google Chrome, run a web application in a separate window and create a shortcut for it in operating system level which makes it searchable by system-wide desktop search feature of OS like Spotlight in macOS, Start menu in Windows Start or Linux desktop environments and then because of the nature of web application we can use Google Chrome Extensions like Google Translate or Grammarly inside them.
Another thing that you can do, instead of pinning web applications like Gmail or Calendar into tabs and have several pinned tabs you can rum them as a separate application in a new window.
