WebRunner Begat Prism

October 27, 2007 by Chris · 3 Comments 

Just a week ago I wrote about Mozilla’s WebRunner. It was an interesting approach at “site specific browsing” but a bit of pain to build configs for — ok, not really, but not as simple as one might like.

Enter “Prism“, a new Mozilla Labs project:

Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.

Setting this one to run with a specific app is a bit more straightforward than it was with WebRunner:

Configuring Prism image

What an awesome way to setup shortcuts to my various online office applications.

I’ve mentioned interesting ways to run Meebo a few times in the past week, this obviously makes yet another — and perhaps the best one yet?

[Thanks for the link Atomic1fire!]

Possibly Related posts:

  1. How Have You Used Prism?
  2. Prism 0.9 Released: Icon Support!
  3. WebRunner – Focused Browsing
  4. Getting Flash to Work With Prism in Linux
  5. Wanted: Pop-ups from Mozilla Prism

Comments

3 Responses to “WebRunner Begat Prism”

  1. MT Host says:

    And you can use any web application directly from your desktop?
    Wow…

    Is there any requeriments, java, or something?

  2. Chris says:

    Nope, no requirements. Just install Prism and off you go!

  3. [...] all is not lost. Let’s not forget the Mozilla Prism project that has been around since last fall (first mentioned). Just grab the Prism Firefox add-on (announced last March) and you can create the same app [...]

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