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Fluid — "Site Specific Browser"

Posted by James | Filed under Future, Geek, Web

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Todd Ditchendorf has released Fluid, a Site Specific Browser that allows you to ditch the 30 tabbed browser, and run web applications in the own world (icon etc):

Fluid 0.4 includes Dock badges and Dock menus for Gmail, Google Reader, and Yahoo! Mail, auto-software updates via the Sparkle Update Framework, custom SSB installation paths, and custom SSB icons.

And, how cool is this… a Flickr group for shared Fluid SSB icons!

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 web app 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.

What makes Fluid different from Prism?
Fluid is very similar in nature to Prism, but is based on Safari’s WebKit rendering engine. And SSBs created by fluid are true, native Cocoa OS X applications offering seamless integration into the Mac OS.