[chromium-discuss] MSIX Chrome for Windows?

[Nick Passaro]

Could we please get an MSIX version of Chrome for Windows as soon as possible? I'm no longer using any standard Win32 applications unless they're containerized, current homemade MSIX installations of Chrome work really well, but they're obviously not official. It works really well and I've yet to see even the slightest bugs or issues, and it would be pretty cool for Google to officially support it. It does not require that application developers distribute their applications through the garbage heap that is the Microsoft Store, and it also does not require that browsers use the joke that is Edge's rendering engine. It's just good ol' Win32 but containerized, so it keeps systems clean. So far, what's possible is using the MSIX Packaging Tool to watch a normal Chrome installer do its thing, and all of the files, as well as all of the registry entries, just get wrapped up in a container when the installation completes, so nothing about Chrome or its installer need to change. And from what I can tell, Chrome can even update itself inside the container as it normally would if it weren't in the container. Additionally, the container is just a .msix file, much like a Mac app is just a .app file. The file can be opened like a folder to see the filesystem contained within it and Chrome as an MSIX app would still reside under C:\Program Files