Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog

Looks like WebRunner grew up a little in the past week. Version 0.8 is now known as Mozilla Prism. Now all you need to do is run Prism and set up your own “web apps” on your desktop, start menu, or quick launch bar.

So what makes this cool for the non-geek out there? You can make a web application look and feel like a desktop application. Without all the “chrome”, the stuff that makes a web browser look like it does. No address bar, no status bar, and none of the plugins. Granted, the plugins are what makes Mozilla Firefox so cool, but they do tend to slow things down a bit. I have found many uses for this application. I have several on my desktop, including GMail, Facebook, Google Calendar and Google Reader. They load in its own very frisky browser window with no frills. Just the app, ma’am.

I found Prism very useful to help create a “walled garden” for my five-year-old. I make apps for sites that I approve. Anything else is blocked, as I have Firefox disabled on her profile. Wicked cool.

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