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k8tte on Oct 30, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Just installed GoogleChrome on a Mac, suddenly 4 o...

I suppose you mean the "Chrome Apps". they are just shortcuts to the web version of these tools, not the actual tools.

dakini99 on Oct 30, 2015 [–]

You're right. They are indeed web shortcuts.

But that doesn't change the fact that they show up as apps in the Launchpad.

Even worse, as I just discovered, they can't be deleted from the Launchpad! Neither do they show up in the Applications directory! WTF!

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