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DESCRIPTION
Fluid... Give your favorite webapps a home on your Mac OS X Desktop.
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
Verison 0.9.6:
- FluidInstance.app: FIX for crasher when attaching files when Safari4 is installed
- FluidInstance.app: FIX SSB browser window minimum width returned to 180px which is friendlier for iphone-optimized sites
- FluidInstance.app: FIX Selected download folder now persists correctly.
- FluidInstance.app: FIX drag/reordering tabs now works correctly (Before they were not
- truly
- reordered and you would see strange behavior when using keyboard shortcuts for next/prev tab)
- FluidInstance.app: FIX Annoying "Are you sure you want to close this window?" dialog no longer shown when you close the last window with multiple tabs and "Closing the last window only hides the window" pref is set
- FluidInstance.app: NEW added 'Download Linked File As...' context menu item
- FluidInstance.app: NEW Preference: Hide all windows while not active
- FluidInstance.app: FIX return of the 'Look up in Dictionary' context menu item for defining terms in Dictionary.app
- FluidInstance.app: FIX for bug where tab at incorrect index would be selected when closing the tab at the first index in a window with multiple tabs open
- FluidInstance.app: FIX only hide system menubar when entering FullScreen if the fullscreen screen is the screen with the menubar
- FluidInstance.app: FIX URLs are only added to the recent URL auto-complete list when a URL load is successful
- FluidInstance.app: FIX URLs can now be dragged from the location bar (via their favicon) to Firefox and non-webkit-based browsers to load the URL
- FluidInstance.app: FIX URLs can now be dragged from the location bar (via their favicon) to the Finder to create .webloc files (property lists)
- FluidInstance.app: FIX Removed crazy 1 second delay on SSB launch where first tab is visible and then hides.
- FluidInstance.app: FIX better feed subscription handling for Google Reader SSBs
- WebThumbnailPlugIn: FIX for crasher that could sometimes occur in Enhanced Google web thumbnail SERPs
- BrowsaBrowsaPlugIn: NEW Preference for opening clicked links in system default browser
- BrowsaBrowsaPlugIn: FIX "New windows open with" preference now defaults to "Home Page"
- Fluid.app: NEW Drag image files (jpg, tiff, png), icon files (icns) or applications (app) to the Fluid window to specify your custom SSB icon.
- Fluid.app: NEW Keyboard shortcuts for setting the installation locatoin to Applications, Home or Desktop
- Fluid.app: FIX fixed strange issue where Fluid.app would not become frontmost app on very first launch (it kinda hid in the background)
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| Fluid User Reviews (19 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Mar 2 2009 |
JDUB800 After this newest update Fluid and it's instances appear to crash on site loading. Yes, I do have Safari 4b installed, but this update was meant to fix this?
(Version 0.9.6) | |
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| Dec 1 2008 |
RAMPANCY The 0.9.5 messed up all of my existing SSB's; they all wouldn't open, giving me an error message saying something to the effect of "the application is not supported by the architecture on this computer". I'm still staying with my old 0.9.2.4 version.
(Version 0.9.5) | |
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 | Jun 30 2008 |
BLUEBIRD I love this app. The ability to make the app a menuextra is fantastic. I'm using it in conjunction with Evernote.com to always have my Evernote notes available in the menubar. I also have one of my business sites in the menubar to quickly help customers when on the phone in Customer Service. Fantastic time saver. Developer is great at updating what needs fixed and improved.
(Version 0.9.2.2) | |
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| Jun 30 2008 |
MACGEEK19 For this app to survive through the release of Snow Leopard, you will need to add some new feature as Safari does this and does it pretty well.
(Version 0.9.2.2) | |
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| Jul 1 2008 |
MACLOVIN This puts Safari's webapps to shame. Custom icons, cover flow previews, the ability to change the user agent signature, amazing URL shrinking and revealing, making embedded or menu bar apps, everything. I made one Safari webapp, and trashed it almost immediately. It's like using a Fluid SSB with zero features.
(Version 0.9.2.2) | |
| Jun 20 2008 |
EGN New Safari 4 does this! File-> Save as Web Application....
(Version 0.9.2) | |
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| Jun 26 2008 |
MACLOVIN That's not as good at all. This has built-in support for Greasemonkey scripts, the easily customizable plugins, and tons more features. Fluid's SSBs put Safari's to shame.
(Version 0.9.2.1) | |
 | May 27 2008 |
MACLOVIN The plugins part of the preferences has disappeared in some of my apps, so I can no longer edit the options for the thumbnail plugin.
(Version 0.9.1.4) | |
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| Apr 21 2008 |
JEDIK I've tried to use Fluid for a while but run into a couple of problems: 1. Setting 'Accept cookies only from sites you navigate to' does not work, Gmail complains for instance, although it works with Safari; 2. The RSS button does not open the link in the default RSS reader, but in the default browser instead; 3. Showing the current in the Status Bar even when mousing over other links is annoying at least; 4. App crashed when trying to run a Java applet (it works fine in Safari/Camino); 5. Maybe the worst, 'middle-click' on links does NOT open them in another tab like all other browsers do, COMMAND+click works tho; 6. Links that open in a new window aren't redirected to a new tab, i.e. single window mode isn't possible. - Allow the user to run Fluid as a normal browser even if s/he doesn't want to create a SSB. It will probably increase your user base and also allow newbies to use it and test its incredible nifty add-ons like the Cover Flow/Clipping plugins; - Make the 'Mail this link' use the default mail application and not only Mail.app; - as it's a SSB it would be nice to open RSS feeds in an online service as option, like Camino/Firefox do; - allow some kind of user CSS like Safari or add some kind of 'ad-blocker' feature. I don't know if the dev look at MacUpdate so I am sending this to his email asap. Thanks and keep it up! =)
(Version 0.9) | |
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| Apr 21 2008 |
JEDIK Another annoying bug: changing tabs makes the Flash widgets to reload, so you cannot buffer a YouTube video while navigating to another site in another tab, for instance...
(Version 0.9) | |
| Apr 21 2008 |
TWISTERMC Grab Mozilla Prism. Same idea, not as cool, but works under 10.4.x.
(Version 0.9) | |
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| Apr 21 2008 |
TWISTERMC Crap. This was suppose to be a reply to previous comments. I'd never suggest Prism over Fluid, except for those on 10.4.x.
(Version 0.9) | |
| Apr 15 2008 |
MRELCEE This is a very slick idea.
(Version 0.8.9.1) | |
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| Mar 15 2008 |
ALJUK I like the sound of this, but no 10.4 support? Shame...
(Version 0.8.5) | |
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| Apr 9 2008 |
G. I. Um, not?
(Version 0.8.8) | |
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