Chrome Apps "Deprecated"

[dewline]

As someone who still uses the Chrome browser for a few things - like watching some TV shows via Bell-affiliated channels - I'm worried about this bit of news on Ars Technica.

Comments

[mystical_journey]

What a pain! Drop the apps some people use.

I use firefox so no familiar with crome.

[agoodwinsmith]

I confess I am a luddite. Well - I don't want to destroy other people's new stuff - but I don't want to use it myself. I still have 5 inch floppy discs with the "latest super-useful thingie" - that I quite liked and wouldn't mind still using. Something would have to be aMAZing (I mean: really aMAZing) to get me to overcome my reluctance to learn something complicated that will only be useful for two or three years. Manufacturers are always removing the useful stuff in order to give you sad stuff that makes it easier for advertizers to show you crap you will never want.

I suspect that I am missing the value you see in the thing being cancelled, but I suspect it is like my mother-in-law and new TV controls - easy on/off and easy channel selection have been buried in a pile of stuff she will never ever (EVER) want to use - but the controls make it easier for them to try to sell her movies in excess of her regular subscription. The fact that other people use the controls for useful-to-them functions which they value doesn't actually improve her experience or entice her to master something that is going to change again before she has quite figured it out.

I'm sorry something you like is being taken away. I hate it when that happens (still really miss Deep Heat muscle ointment, and a tinned rice thing that was so tasty, and WP 5.1).

[ffutures]

And of course Firefox just killed off vast swathes of its add-ons - really not a fun time for people who like to customize their software.

[dewline]

This is one extension I want to see made available to Firefox users again, and soon:

http://citizen-ex.com/