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 or Flash ad crashing your browser and causing you to loose your (say) Google Spreadsheets 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 complete with standard menu bar, Dock icon, and logical separation from your other web browsing activity.

Fluid is highly inspired by the excellent Prism (formerly WebRunner) project by Mozilla Labs. 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.




What’s New in This Release:

· Fluid.app: FIX: If you create ssb with a .icns icon, a menu extra icon is correctly created (previously it was not).
· Fluid.app: FIX: Fixed bug where custom icons indicated by link rel=”apple-touch-icon” … or link rel=”fluid-icon” … that were not placed in the root dir of the site were not actually used (base URL resolution bug).
· FluidInstance.app: NEW: Embedded SSBs (SSB app menu -> Convert to Embedded SSB).
· FluidInstance.app: NEW: Tiny URL resolution. Right-click any compressed URL and select ‘Resolve Tiny URL’. Supported services: tinyurl.com, is.gd, moourl.com, xrl.us, s3nt.com, twurl.nl, ping.fm, rubyurl.com, peaurl.com, urltea.com, snipurl.com, rurl.org, dwarfurl.com, kurl.nl, tinypic.com, shorl.com, digbig.com, snurl.com, shurl.net, doiop.com, shorttext.com, 301url.com.
· FluidInstance.app: Location bar/search field split view (in browser window toolbars) persists its split position across windows/launches.
· FluidInstance.app: Fix: control-clicking a MenuExtra SSB in the status bar now shows context menu (before, only right clicking with the mouse would work).
· FluidInstance.app: Fix: Improved behavior for Hidden Windows feature added in 0.9.1.5.
· FluidInstance.app: Fix: Improved behavior for setting an SSB as your default browser. Clicking links in other applications now launches the page correctly in the default browser SSB.
· FluidInstance.app: Fix: Clicking the tiny ‘x’ button in a browser tab selects the *next* tab instead of the previous tab after closing (matching behavior or cmd-W and other browsers).
· FluidInstance.app: Fix: Fixed issue where running software update on a MenuExtra SSB would leave the SSB in an inconsistent state - erroneously appearing with a main menu.
· FluidInstance.app: Fix: Fixed issue where SSB scrollbars wouldn’t respect ’scroll to here’ setting from System Preferences.
· FluidInstance.app: Fix: Page title is rendered in the titlebar for windows with the ‘Black (HUD)’ style appearance.
· BrowsaBrowsa Plug-in: FIX: Fixing BrowsaBrowsa plugin to not be borked when appearing in a drawer.
· Clipboard Plug-in: Removed. meh.

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Monday, June 16th, 2008 at 1:18 am
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