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Fluid gives your favorite Web apps a home on your Mac OS X Desktop.
Are you a Gmail, Facebook, Campfire or an 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 Web apps as a separate desktop application. Fluid gives any webapp a home on your
Are you a Gmail, Facebook, Campfire or an 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 Web apps as a separate desktop application. Fluid gives any webapp a home on your
What's New
Version 1.8.2:
- FIX: Improved support for multiple displays.
- FIX: Improved support for userscripts.
- FIX: Web Page Zoom persists across launches.
- FIX: JavaScript and CSS sytnax highlighting and some code completion features in Userscript and Userstyle editors.
Requirements
- Intel, 64-bit processor
- OS X 10.6 or later
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Fluid gives your favorite Web apps a home on your Mac OS X Desktop.
Are you a Gmail, Facebook, Campfire or an 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 Web apps 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.
Are you a Gmail, Facebook, Campfire or an 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 Web apps 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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I found out today that the Undo command doesn't work using cmd+Z!
Whatever you write, if you want to undo it, you must do it via the menu bar. Annoying.
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Tommy-Montag reviewed on 23 Dec 2013
Fortunately, my webmail provider doesn't show ads or have intrusive page elements so I didn't have a need to fiddle about with userstyles or userscripts to create a distraction-free workspace, which made setup a breeze for me. It just worked right out of the box in a way that was very useful to me.
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Nova-Bossa reviewed on 29 Nov 2013
Thanks!
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@pdog: What we seek is a way to use Fluid with software that blocks ads; an example would be compatibility with the AdBlock extension for Safari. If to use Fluid one must sacrifice the ability to block ads, then it will never truly replace a dedicated web browser for advertising-heavy sites.
Also, note that Nova-Bossa didn't downrate Fluid at all. He merely pointed out the lack of an important, even critical, feature.
afm666 reviewed on 23 Aug 2013
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Yavari reviewed on 08 Jul 2013
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Zeebie reviewed on 20 Jun 2013
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I came across a solution for getting Netflix Instant Streaming to run on fluid: Change the default User Agent in the plist file. Instant will run if you change the User Agent from default to Safari, but it reverts back with every start up. To change that:
Right click the fluid-created Netflix app, and go to Show Package Contents. Go to Contents folder, then Resources folder, then open UserAgentStrings.plist up in your choice of editor (in 10.6.8, I used TextEdit). In the "Default (Automatically Chosen)" string, the default is listed as "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X %d_%d_%d) AppleWebKit/%@ (KHTML, like Gecko) %@ Version/%@ Safari/%@". If you look below, there's a whole host of other strings, such as Safari, iOS Safari, IE, Firefox, etc. Figure out which one enables Instant for you, copy that string, and paste it in the place of the default. Save the plist, and reopen the Netflix app; Instant should now work. Not sure if updates will bork this trick, but quitting the application certainly doesn't.
As for HBO Go, I haven't figured that out yet. Whenever I try and login with my provider, it jumps me to Safari and the HBO app remains on a grey page with no activity. If anyone can give some advice, that would be lovely.
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1. For some reason, "applications" created with Fluid cannot be assigned to a specific desktop. Every other app in my Dock has this option, but the site-specific "app" I created with Fluid does not.
2. The app icon is very low res and looks terrible. I've tried replacing the appl.icns with a proper, high quality one, but it still ends up being low res in the Finder, Dock, and Launchpad.
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As for the icon, I exported the high-res icon I want to use from CandyBar (an Iconfactory icon) as a PNG (at the maximum supported size - 512x512) and chose that as the icon when creating the app. It now looks great everywhere. (I guess you can't replace a low res icon with a high res one after the app has been created.)
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Aeschylus reviewed on 16 Sep 2012
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FIX: Improved Application stability on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
FIX: Fluid App Icon creation now works on MacBook Pro with Retina screen.
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Also, the contextual (right-click) menu seems to be missing some items such as "open image in new tab" etc. I feel like this version is a step down from the beta.
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I first updated the Reader app made by Fluid, and then tried deleting that app and then creating a new app using the 0.4 version of Fluid. Still does not get rid of the unread badge after reading items.
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Ededed rated on 21 Apr 2014
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katlinquinn rated on 28 Aug 2013
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b-0-m rated on 25 Jul 2013
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JoshiSm rated on 14 Aug 2012
creativeboulder rated on 03 Sep 2011
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poobard rated on 01 May 2011
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Emrys0821 rated on 17 Jan 2011