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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.

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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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Developer:Todd Ditchendorf
Downloads:19,118
  - Version d/l:2,281
Internet:Browsers
License:Free
Date:01 Mar 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
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Nov 15 2009

DENTALMAC  Security question. This app have not been updated in over six months. Is this a concern or does it use an underlying framework such as Safari that gets updated independently?

Love this app. Love to use it for logmein.com and mint.com.  
(Version 0.9.6)

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Nov 6 2009

ICONZ113  Also is there any way to change the icon of an already created fluid app? and do fluid apps create support files the way regular apps do ? like will there be associated files in application support folders? are anything in the library folders?  
(Version 0.9.6)

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Nov 6 2009

ICONZ113  Do you guys keep your fluid apps in your applications folder or somewhere else? or in a folder all together?  
(Version 0.9.6)

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Oct 5 2009
*****

BCWINTERS  Can't believe how quickly Fluid has radically altered the way I use my Mac. No more juggling tabs and windows in Safari to keep an eye on Gmail or the bug tracker at work...now I have separate apps for each one. How about a mini-browser for Hulu that floats above my other windows...or a preview browser for website development that never gets its tabs mixed in with my personal browsing? You get the gist--Fluid makes it possible, not to mention dead simple. I don't think I could work without it anymore.  
(Version 0.9.6)

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Jul 11 2009
*****

/USR/BIN/PAUL  THANK YOU! Thank you for supporting us PPC users. I couldn't use Prism because it's Intel only and the newest Safari with Snow Leopard is also Intel only. I wanted Fluid for my Google Reader account, as it seems there are not many good Google Reader clients out there. This app is very snappy/quick and I love all the extra features. Really feels like an app on my desktop. Thanks again.  
(Version 0.9.6)

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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)

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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)

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