{"id":17514,"date":"2020-05-29T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2574722"},"modified":"2020-05-29T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:30:00","slug":"googles-more-secure-multi-platform-chat-app-requires-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/29\/googles-more-secure-multi-platform-chat-app-requires-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s more secure, \u2018multi-platform\u2019 Chat app requires Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a Progressive Web App version of the messaging service.<\/p>\n<div class=\"o-article_block \">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+ mt-n40\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+__cell col-8-of-12@tl+ pt-40\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"stretch-img  hide@m-\" src=\"https:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/images\/dims?thumbnail=640%2C&amp;quality=95&amp;image_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fs.yimg.com%2Fos%2Fcreatr-uploaded-images%2F2020-05%2Fc022a550-a0cc-11ea-bf5b-14ea3200bbc8&amp;client=amp-blogside-v2&amp;signature=0f5255eea552acbd20547f31efa5174b1c048ca3\" alt=\"Google\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"engadget-post-contents\" class=\"o-article_block pb-15 pb-5@m- o-subtle_divider\" data-ylk=\"sec:postcontents;slk:Google%27s%20more%20secure%2C%20%27multi-platform%27%20Chat%20app%20requires%20Chrome;elm:link;itc:0;\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+__cell col-8-of-12@tl+\">\n<div class=\"article-text c-gray-1\">\n<p>Google Chat, the service formerly known as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018-12-07-google-smart-reply-hangouts-chat.html\" data-rapid_p=\"1\" data-v9y=\"1\">Hangouts Chat<\/a>, has a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com\/2020\/05\/use-new-google-chat-app.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new app<\/a>&nbsp;that works on any PC with Chrome. The messaging service has long had a desktop application, but this Progressive Web App version of it has broader compatibility with Windows, MacOS, Chrome OS and Linux. Google says it&rsquo;s also more secure, since it&rsquo;s kept up to date with Chrome and gets updated automatically through the web for the latest features.<\/p>\n<p>The tech giant has been rolling out PWA versions of its services, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018-06-04-google-photos-progressive-web-app.html\" data-rapid_p=\"3\" data-v9y=\"1\">Photos<\/a>&nbsp;and Drive, over the past few years. PWAs are basically websites or web pages that integrate with a device&rsquo;s operating system to look and function like native apps. At the moment, the Google Chat PWA only works if a computer has Chrome 73 installed &mdash; the browser needs to be open, but it doesn&rsquo;t have to be the default. Google&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/a\/answer\/9296704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says<\/a>&nbsp;it&rsquo;s working to address those limitations, though, so the app might eventually work with other browsers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018-12-07-google-smart-reply-hangouts-chat.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018-12-07-google-smart-reply-hangouts-chat.html<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Mariella Moon<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Mariella Moon<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s a Progressive Web App version of the messaging service. Google Chat, the service formerly known as&nbsp;Hangouts Chat, has a&nbsp;new app&nbsp;that works on any PC with Chrome. The messaging service has long had a desktop application, but this Progressive Web App version of it has broader compatibility with Windows, MacOS, Chrome OS and Linux. Google &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/05\/29\/googles-more-secure-multi-platform-chat-app-requires-chrome\/\">Continue reading <span>Google&rsquo;s more secure, &lsquo;multi-platform&rsquo; Chat app requires Chrome<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/29\/googles-more-secure-multi-platform-chat-app-requires-chrome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Google\u2019s more secure, \u2018multi-platform\u2019 Chat app requires Chrome - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/29\/googles-more-secure-multi-platform-chat-app-requires-chrome\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google\u2019s more secure, \u2018multi-platform\u2019 Chat app requires Chrome - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&rsquo;s a Progressive Web App version of the messaging service. 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