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Firefox will eventually let users turn web apps into desktop apps

Source: Download Squad

Dec 30, 2008

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Filed under: Web services, Mozilla, web 2.0, Browsers

Web based apps are the new desktop apps. There are web apps for playing games, watching videos, listening to music, creating and editing office documents, and the list goes on. While I still prefer editing audio, video, and images using dedicated desktop tools, there are even web apps for that.

But sometimes if all you want to do is access your email account or an online image editor like Picnik, you don't really need to fire up a full fledged web browser. A while back Mozilla created a project called Prism that lets you create a desktop shortcut that will open just a single page at a time in a stripped down version of Firefox. Now it looks like Mozilla is planning on integrating that feature with a future version of Firefox.

Here's how it would work. When you visit a web-based application, you'd be able to click a button to turn it into a desktop app. This would create a desktop shortcut to the application and users would be able to open a window showing just that app. For certain applications, like the Flic ...Read the full article

Comments (2)

Josh Miller,

Dec 30, 2008

Mozilla already ha this service available and has for a while.

http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/

Murdog,

Dec 30, 2008

I hope it continues to work with MobileMe because my virtual apps I created to access my calendar using Chrome no longer work...

Apple seems to be more obligated to service Firefox due to it penetration, but they also have a bad habit of simply saying... You shoulda bought a Mac.

Go Go Firefox. Bring it on, I love the idea!