Site specific browsers: Fluid + Hahlo

by Volker Weber

Fluid is a pretty handy little Mac application. It allows you to create Site Specific Browsers for web applications you use. These SSBs are then available as a dock icon or menu bar item, as if they were standalone desktop applications.

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Yeah, this is a great technique - I have a separate browser for (looking at my dock) Google Mail, Google Calendar, Outlook Web Access, Google Reader, Google Documents, Grooveshark Lite, Mint, Yodleee, and Socialthing. The ability to do the things like transparency and coverflow style tab/link views is just gravy.

Also, Prism on Firefox gives a similar feel, and even better is the way Google Chrome is set up. Can't wait for that on the Mac.

Kevan Emmott, 2008-10-04

The browser is the normal bred and butter tool for millions and therefore it is quite astonishing, that only a few small projects till Chrome have been dedicated to the major browsing limitations: one hangup and the whole browser crashes. The hangup can be caused by some addon, plugin, by a javascript or flash app, whatever. A small glitch and boom.
And then we have the memory disaster. Browser apps grab and grab more memory, then swap memory and at some point your OS slows down and you need to close or crash the browser.

Unfortunately I am (still) using one of the device/OS combinations which leaves me without those essential browsing features: a Powerbook with Tiger. Therefore no Fluid, no Prism 0.9 and of course no Google Chrome. I tried Prism 0.8 but gave up after a few weeks.

One of the reasons I consider upgrading the OS before getting a new machine...

Moritz Schroeder, 2008-10-04

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