How to create an application shortcut in Chrome for Mac

Question

This has been bugging me for a while, and despite googling around, I cannot seem to even find an explanation as to why the "Create Application Shortcut" is disabled.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, the answer to your question is "you can't," and the reason is "because Google says so.

http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95710 says

This feature is only available for Google Chrome on Windows and Linux.

but there is no real explanation as to why. Nor have I found one anywhere else. It seems like an oft-requested feature, but I've never seen Google even suggest that they are planning to add it (although I presume/hope that they will).

Alternative Solution: If you are interested in creating site-specific browsers on Mac OS X, Fluid.app works great, but (IIRC) it is based on Webkit, not Chrome.

Answer 2

There have been google suppor threads where a "rep" does state that this feature is in the works. It once was pegged at 2 months, or perhaps 2 weeks, I can't remember. That was over a year ago.

I suspect it is not a very high priority with so few users even knowing what it would be good for. I had a PC/Windows using friend try it out, not only couldn't he figure out how to set it up, but couldn't think of a good reason why it would be a great idea.

All the while, he was clicking away and mousing away with his 1900 button mouse that he loves so much. :)