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Fluid - 0.9.4.1

transfer Web apps to the OS X desktop

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All Time:	(4.8)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	0.9.4.1
Release Date:	2008-09-13
License:	Beta
Downloads (this version):	937
Downloads (all versions):	16,890

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Product Description:

Are you a Gmail, Facebook, Campfire or Insert_Your_Favorite_Webapp_Here fanatic? Do you have 20 or more browser tabs open at all times? Are you tired of some random site crashing your browser and causing you to loose your (say) Google Docs data in another tab?

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 desktop application. Fluid gives any webapp a home on your Mac OS X desktop including Dock icon, menu bar, and logical separation from your other web browsing activity.

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 webapp you'd like to run in a Site Specific Browser. Then provide a name, click 'Create' and you'll be prompted to launch the new native Mac app you've just created.

Use Fluid to run YouTube, GTalk, Flickr, Basecamp, Delicious, .Mac webmail, or any other webapp as a separate desktop application.

Anytime you click a link to another site in an SSB, the link is opened in your system default web browser, keeping your SSB dedicated to the original site you've specified.

What's new in this version:

v0.9.4.1:

FluidInstance.app: FIX: fixed bug that originated in 0.9.4 where Userscripts were executed multiple times each time the page loaded.

v0.9.4:

FluidInstance.app: Much improved "View Source" window with line numbers, syntax highlighting and text search.
FluidInstance.app: Browser-integrated "Find" panel with "Search-as-you-type".
FluidInstance.app: Much improved "Downloads" window with resumable downloads and resizable window.
FluidInstance.app: FIX: clicking 'Clear' button in the Downloads window only clears non-active downloads. Downloads in progress are not affected.
FluidInstance.app: Improved integration with WebInspector. Removed old JS Console, now uses the JS Console built into the Web Inspector. New Menu Items for displaying Web Inspector features - look under "Window" main menu.
FluidInstance.app: Added Fluid-specific User-agent string which is selected by default in new SSBs. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Fluid/0.9.4 Safari/525.13. Also changed the UA-string selection behavior to truly automatically select this by default going forward. The bad news is that older Fluid SSBs which are updated will not pick up the new User-agent automatically the first time. you will have to manually select the new Default the first time for existing software-updated SSBs. Otherwise the SSB will continue to use the previously selected or defaulted UA string.
FluidInstance.app: New preference in Plug-in Preferences pane. "New windows automatically display visible Plug-ins from previous window". Off by default (which is a change from previous versions where this was always on).
FluidInstance.app: Added support for tr.im URL expansion.
FluidInstance.app: FIX: installing the Gears Beta plugin no longer breaks the User-Agent submenu in the Application menu.
FluidInstance.app: FIX: fixed borked downforeveryoneorjustme.com command.
BrowsaBrowsaPlugIn: TinyURL expansion/creation context menu items work in plugin WebViews just like the main browser WebViews

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC

Additional Requirements:

None

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Irreplaceable - Version: 0.9.1.3, 5/12/2008 09:59AM PST

(1 of 2 users found this comment useful)

ylon

This application is a key piece in my daily workflow. I could certainly stand for some more web development features to be integrated or even if he would consider adding some cross functionality with CSSEdit and/or Flux.

One thing that I really need to see soon though is full featured 1Passwd support. That would be outstanding.

Also, some icon customization in the Preferences that would properly embed a custom icon so that it sticks post update would be great as well.

problem with 0.9 - Version: 0.9, 4/22/2008 05:38AM PST

usarian

says"sorry, this beta has expired when you try to tun it"

experiencing crashes with 0.8.3 - Version: 0.8.3, 3/4/2008 08:46AM PST

espringer

On the java-based site that I just set up using Fluid 0.8.3, I'm getting frequent crashes (which mean loss of data). Running 10.5.2, in case that makes a difference...