Some Early Pictures Of Chrome's New Web Apps Feature

Perhaps the biggest announcement during day one of Google I/O was the Chrome Web Store — an app store for web apps that lives in Google’s Chrome web browser (and soon Chrome OS). There’s a lot of curiosity out there about how this will work. Here are a few early pictures to show you:

Here’s what tabs currently look like in Chrome (notice the TC favicon, Google is watching):

Here’s what installed apps will look like (on the left):

Here’s the app installation pop-up (notice that it informs you what it will need to access):

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Here’s what the app launch page in Chrome will look like (the final icon is for the store itself):

Here’s one app, MugTug Darkroom, running in Chrome:

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