One annoyance I have with Chrome is that bookmarks cannot be made to act as a Chrome "app". You can't set a bookmark to display with a large icon on the new tab screen, have it open as a pinned tab, open it as a browser UI-free window via a desktop ap­pli­ca­tion, etc. It's handy when a site goes through the effort to provide through the Chrome Web Store but most don't. Even some Google properties such as Google Voice don't provide ap­pli­ca­tion icons via the store.

Luckily it's pretty easy to create your own. Create a directory named after the website. Within …continue.