Editing GNOME Web (section)

=== Web Application Mode ===
[[File:GNOME Web 3.36 application manager.png|thumb|GNOME Web 3.36 (March 2020) in "Web Application mode", showing the Wikipedia main page]]
{{main|Site-specific browser}}

Since GNOME 3.2, released in September 2011,<ref name="gnome32_rn"/> Web allows creating application launchers for [[web application]]s. The subsequent invocation of a launcher brings up a plain [[site-specific browser]] (single instance) of Web limited to one domain, with off-site links opening in a normal browser.<ref name="web-application-mode_devblog" /> The launcher created this way is accessible from the desktop and is not limited to [[GNOME Shell]]. For instance it may be used with [[Unity (user interface)|Unity]], used on [[Ubuntu (operating system)|Ubuntu]].<ref name="install-wam-ubuntu_3rd" /> This feature facilitates the integration of the desktop and [[World Wide Web]], which is a goal of Web's developers.<ref name="web-comes_devblog" /> Similar features can be found in the Windows version of [[Google Chrome]]. For the same purpose [[Mozilla Foundation]] previously developed a standalone application [[Mozilla Prism]], which was superseded by the project [[Chromeless]].<ref name="mozilla-chromeless" />

Web applications are managed within the browser's main instance. The applications can be deleted from the page, accessible with a [[about URI scheme|special URI]] '''about:applications'''. This approach was supposed to be a temporary while a centralized GNOME web application management was to be implemented in GNOME 3.4, but this never happened.<ref name="git_news" />