Nothing much is known about how Google Chrome Web Apps will work. Thanks to Giovani H Ceotto, a Google Chrome Apps and Extensions developer, we have some cool info for you on how apps will be working.
Please note things are still being developed and things you see on this post, may not make it to the final build. But its always to have a taste of things to come, right ?
Hot Stuff First
Chrome Web Apps will have option of opening in three forms. As a Tab, As a Window, and as “Panel”. How this options will be managed, this I am not sure. It could be a setting on each app, letting you have different apps open in different styles, or one setting for apps in general. We will have to wait for more details on this.
Here is the option to manage this on the new tab page, to the extreme bottom.
Default is how it looks like for you now, if you have enabled apps. Tab option also looks similar as of now. We will have to experiment more to figure out how different it is.
If you select “window“, apps will open as a new window. Simple ? May be, or may be something more to it. Stay tuned for detailed analysis.
Panel option gives apps a light weight look. With no UI clutter of the browser, it opens up as a separate window. It is also easy to resize them. Here is how it looks like.
Now, some random facts about Apps behavior
Now, some random facts about Apps behavior since I have used couple of them for few weeks now. If you have an app installed for a website, whenever you type the website address and open it in the normal way, chrome will open the website in the app form.
For example, since I have twitter web app installed, whenever I type twitter.com to the address bar, it will open the twitter app, and not the normal tab.
Apps, by default will not show the browser toolbar. If you want to see them, right click on the tab, and select “Show Toolbar”
If you have a app opened, for a website, Chrome will not let you ( at least now ) open a second tab with the same website. It will always take you to the app that is already open.
If you have noticed any interesting fact about how Chrome Web Apps work, please share it in comments !
How I Enabled This
Okay, I know, many of you want to know how I enabled this, here you go guys ! You guys should say thanks to Giovani H Ceotto. He taught me how to do this 
Update : Instead of the custom.css edit, using the commandline switch. –apps-debug (thanks PhistucK )
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Open C:\Users\%%the user name%%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\User StyleSheets
( Do not forget to replace %%the user name%% with your actual username )
Open custom.css using notepad.
Add the following line of code and save it.
.sections #debug{display:block !important}
Open chrome again, go to new tab page and look at bottom !
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Erm, one question.
I enabled apps, DL’ed the ChromeOS extension, and tried to put apps in separate Panels. But somewhy it won’t get saved and apps are opened in new tabs even I selected panels. Any workaround?
did I edited the custom.css file, and restarted browser ?
So did I. But it won’t save my selection, it jumps back to the original “Tabs” selection :S
You need to select panel each time .. at least of now ..
Instead of using the User Stylesheet hack, you can add a command line switch -
–apps-debug
Which will show it without adding redundant CSS rules to all of the pages.
PhistucK, you rock !!
updating the post !
One more thing – you do not have to write this one -
C:\Users\%%the user name%%\
You can simply use %userprofile% (Windows will automatically replace it with the location that fits the operating system).
This works on Windows XP and Windows Vista (and I bet it also works on Windows 2003\2008\7) -
%userprofile%\local settings\application data\google\chrome\user data
%userprofile%\local settings\application data\google\chrome\application
thanks ! I am thinking about an separate post with steps to edit and add command line switches ..because its required to test loads of new things !
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