Fluid * (Gmail+ Highrise) = Awesome
Highly recommended. It took two minutes to install Fluid (free) and add Gmail and Highrise as distinct applications separate from Firefox. Now I can use the Web browser for browsing rather than running apps. Surprisingly powerful stress relief.
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 or Flash ad crashing your browser and causing you to lose your (say) Google Spreadsheets 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 complete with Dock icon, standard menu bar, and logical separation from your other web browsing activity…
Be sure to check out the custom icons for your dock.
(If you’re not on OS X, Prism does something similar for Windows and Linux powered by the Mozilla engine).
