Fluid
Are you a Gmail, Facebook, Campfire or (Insert Your Favorite Webapp Here) fanatic? Do you have 20 or more browser tabs open at all times? Are you tired of some random site or Flash ad crashing your browser and causing you to lose your (say) Google Spreadsheets data in another tab?
If so, Site Specific Browsers (SSBs) provide a great solution for your webapp woes. Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite webapps as a separate desktop application. Fluid gives any webapp a home on your Mac OS X desktop complete with Dock icon, standard menu bar, and logical separation from your other web browsing activity.
How does it work?
Fluid itself is a very small application. When launched, Fluid displays a small window where you specify the URL of a webapp you'd like to run in a Site Specific Browser. Provide an application name, click 'Create' and you'll be prompted to launch the new native Mac app you've just created.
Use Fluid to run YouTube, GTalk, Flickr, Basecamp, Delicious, .Mac webmail, or any other webapp as a separate Mac desktop application.
Anytime you click a link to another site in an SSB, the link is opened in your system default web browser, keeping your SSB dedicated to the original site you've specified.
Tags: Internet , webkit , safari
Opinions:
just come back to this app after noting that 1Password is going to support it and the current feature list is really impressive. wow! lot's has happened since I last commented
This little app is shaping up to be pretty impressive.
awesome app. too bad it just ate up my processor after 3 running apps.
Maybe this should have been obvious, but I found that the badges would not show up unless I chose one of the images from the facebook page. Doesn't work if you use the favicon.
Maybe I'm just doping out here, but I can't figure out how to get things like Yahoo Mail to show up with the number of unread messages badge like you have in the picture. Is there something required other than just creating an SSB for Yahoo Mail?
Try Hana. Its similar, works under 10.4 and uses a separate cookie store.
Requires Leopard.
On 10.4.10, 0.4 launches then immediatly quits... :(
Yeah, this seems pretty much pointless if its uses the same cookie store as Safari.
also, would be nice if I could somehow use it with 1Password - having just created a SSB for a webapp I have no idea what the password is without 1Password
it would be nice if this kept the cookies seperate to safari and to other fluid SSBs as any websites open in fluid are vulnerable to XSS attacks from websites open in safari. hopefully it will do that before coming out of beta, otherwise quite promising.
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