If the new launcher isn’t active for you out of the gate, you can manually enable it via the chrome:flags#productivity-launcher flag (the entry is named “Productivity experiment: App Launcher”). You can even have Chrome OS sort your launcher by app icon color, if you’re so inclined. It also offers the option to sort your apps by name, a organizational feature that was direly missing from the old version. In contrast to the old stretched-out centered launcher, it’s much easier to navigate with a trackpad or mouse, with icons packed much closer together. 9to5Google notes that this is now changing, becoming enabled for many out of the box. This new launcher was actually supposed to launch widely in Chrome OS 100, but it hasn't been enabled for too many people by default, if at all. Chrome OS 101 enables the new left-aligned launcher for some, a design we first spotted last year. Packaged apps, introduced to Chrome last June, are desktop-like apps that open in their own window and work offline, but are based on Chrome and built with Web technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript and CSS.If you’re lucky, you might see another big change. If you already use a packaged app, delete then reinstall it to see the launcher. Once you’ve got the developer version up and running, you need to install a Chrome packaged app before you will see the Chrome OS app launcher on your taskbar.
The good news is you can easily switch back to the public release of Chrome by downloading and installing the current stable version. Keep in mind, the developer version can sometimes break features or introduce browser crashes, so you may not want to work with it if you rely on Chrome day to day. If you’re already running Chrome, this will replace your current version with the developer release. To get started, you need to download the Chrome for Windows developer version from Google’s dev channel.
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