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An application that is accessed online, within a webpage. Since 12.10 Ubuntu is capable of integrating them with Unity desktop.

Web applications are websites or web pages that can be run as applications by themselves. These include Chrome/Firefox/Opera/etc webapps as well apps you host on (for example) your Ubuntu server.

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How do I remove a website from Ubuntu's web applications?

I thought I would try out the new webapps ppa and everything seems to be working fine. However, google reader now floods my messaging menu with all my feeds and turns the icon blue. How can I remove a specific site (google reader) from accessing…
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How do I use Ubuntu's web application integration?

I've read that Ubuntu will support web applications out of the box, how can I set this up on my computer to play with it?
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How do I get the browser to reask me to integrate with a website?

I'm using webapp integration and I accidentally clicked "No" when asked if I want to integrate with the website. How can I have Firefox or Chrome reask me to integrate the site with Ubuntu?
Jorge Castro
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How do I disable unity webapps notifications from popping up everytime I visit a supported webpage?

Every time i visit a website which supports unity webapp integration, a pop up dialog box out of the 'i' in the address bar appears which gets in my way and distracts me from what I am doing. I do not wish to click the always ignore drop down for…
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What efforts are there and what are the differences in webapps?

So I read some Ubuntu news sites. In the past months I saw many different articles about the integration of web-sites to the unity-desktop. From what I understood there are at least two different efforts: ubuntu web-apps fogger What would be the…
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Where do webapps install after accepting them

I am trying to find where do webapps install after accepting them with Firefox. This can help me when I want to eliminate one of them or edit something.
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How do I keep webapps from appearing in launcher?

I've been looking for a way to keep them from appearing in the bar (and taskswitcher). I want to use webapps, since I quite like the idea of integration (especially for google docs and gmail), but I hate when I have ten of them in the sidebar. Is…
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Is there any finished tutorial on how to develop and package unity web apps?

I want to create unity web-app for my new website.So,is there any up to the mark tutorial.I've read Ubuntu's official tutorial on this topic but that is not even complete.I've developed the code but don't know how to package the code
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How do I remove Amazon app but keep google apps?

I'm using Ubuntu 12.10. Whenever I go to an amazon webpage it keeps popping up an 'Amazon app' in my Unity taskbar. I find this relatively useless because I'm already on the Amazon website. I uninstalled it but it ended up uninstalling all my…
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Do I have to leave a webapp open to get a status notification?

With the integration of webapps, do I have to leave the webpage for facebook, twitter, Google+ or any other social media (or webapp enabled site for that matter) opened to get notifications or can I fetch or configured to fetch them without having…
Luis Alvarado
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How do I remove a site's desktop integration done via Ubuntu webapps?

Possible Duplicate: How do I remove a website from Ubuntu’s web applications? I have recently integrated launchpad site, to my desktop using the Ubuntu desktop apps feature(I just accepted the integration) when I loaded Launchpad in Firefox. I…
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Can unity-webapps make the target refresh?

I've got a working deviantArt webapp, the message counts are working, although they never change. I'd like to refresh the webpage they're on so we get new totals. Is there any way of doing that?
Martin Owens -doctormo-
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How do I uninstall a unity web app?

Possible Duplicate: How do I remove a website from Ubuntu’s web applications? I accidentally installed the youtube unity web app, and now a "youtube" icon appears in my dash. When I click on the icon, a firefox window opens to…
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Option to merge webapps icons into one Launcher icon

Possible Duplicate: How to group apps in Unity Launcher I activated the webapps PPA that enables me to have web pages integrated into Ubuntu but since I use several today I noticed my launcher had A LOT of icons now. For example I have facebook,…
Luis Alvarado
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Ubuntu webapps - Caching/preload/offline ability?

Is there any provision for Ubuntu Webapps (that is HTML5 websites packaged as apps) to cache/preload any data or pages ? Using a hypothetical Twitter Webapp on a Ubuntu Phone as an example: Would I be able to open twitter on my commute and continue…
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