Mozilla Prism for Windows 1.0 Beta 2

4.6 out of 5 stars 4.6 (40 votes)

BETA (July 21, 2009)

Windows (All) / Open Source / 2,929 downloads

Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop. It lets users add their favorite web apps to their desktop environment. They are accessible with Control-Tab, Command-Tab, and Expos�©, just like desktop apps. And users can still access these same applications from any web browser when they are away from their own computers.

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  1. 4 out of 5 stars
    reets

    Reviewing 1.0 Beta 1 (Jun 27, 2009)

    great app but missing one option that i would like to see. when clicking on a link, instead of opening a new window it would be nice to have it open in a new tab in the same prism window.

  2. 3 out of 5 stars
    Blackholesun

    Reviewing 0.9 (Mar 17, 2008)

    This functionality is present in Opera browser since a long time now. Try running Opera browser in the Kiosk mode and see the results. You can even customize it to your liking.

  3. 3 out of 5 stars
    preinterpost

    Reviewing 0.9 (Mar 14, 2008)

    "5 for just being an open source project" - You are such an idiot! Nobody cares if you like OS. Rate the damn program!

    I like prism a lot. You can for example use it to create your own desktop Yahoo mail program. It is sometimes however crashing and does not support the proxies defined in FF. Will be great but still a lot of work to do.

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    anomoly

    Reviewing 0.8 (Nov 6, 2007)

    I read many, of the what seemed like a thousand comments, to it's conception on it's home page.
    I don't know squat about programming but it seems to have SOME sort of potential; what I don't know.
    I can't quite figure out the difference between this and say a portable application as I use as many as I can get my hands upon. I'm typing with FF portable now.
    5 for just being an open source project

  5. 3 out of 5 stars
    spiked

    Reviewing 0.8 (Nov 5, 2007)

    Conceptually, this is like Microsoft's 10 year old HTA technology with 3 key differences: (1) Prism is built upon Firefox's engine instead of IE; (2) Although HTA could take advantage of local system resources, security concerns forced Microsoft to severely limit the ability of HTA to access Internet resources, whereas Prism starts with the assumption that Internet access is what makes web apps valuable; and (3) Prism makes it possible for the end-user to wrap existing web apps, in contrast to HTA which required at least a little bit of HTA-specific coding.

    The convenient thing about HTA is that you don't need anything special to be installed in advance, other than IE. Indeed, the Prism project states, "Ideally you shouldn't even have to download Prism, it should just be built into your browser." Today, you do have to download it and run the traditional exe setup, but eventually it will be implemented as a Firefox extension. Perhaps someday it will become a standard part of Firefox.

    I give it a 3 because it clearly demonstrates potential but a few minutes of experimentation with various sites will quickly reveal rough spots at this stage, so it's not yet useful except as a proof of concept.

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