Are you a Gmail, Facebook, Campfire or Pandora 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 Docs data in another tab? OS X Leopard Dock with an icon for Facebook.app right along normal apps like Dashboard, Mail, and TextMate. 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 Cocoa desktop application. Fluid gives any WebApp a home on your Mac OS X desktop complete with Dock icon, standard menu bar, logical separation from your other web browsing activity, and many, many other goodies.
- Christopher Harley
from Bookmarklet
I used it for an online game, and it worked just fine. Just give it the URL of the page you want the site-specific browser for, it creates the app, and it runs like any other app.
- Seth Greenblatt
from Friend Deck