Posted on May 11, 2009 - by ruby

Prism Firefox Extension, bring your web apps to the desktop

We have tweetdeck, twhirl and few more other out there to bring our favourite social network functionality to the desktop, but do you want to bring any of your favourite website into your desktop like gmail or youtube? if you do, this news is for you. Mozilla has released the version 1.0 of prism firefox extension. It is an extension for firefox which allow you to transform your favourite web application to the desktop ones.

• Access web apps from system taskbar or dock, Prism apps run directly on your desktop and can be accessed just like any other application
• Rock solid web app stability, Prism apps run separately from the browser, so they stay upeven if your browser doesn’t
• System tray icon and dock badges, On Windows, the system tray icon can be changed to give information about application

There are two ways to use Prism, A Firefox extension or a standalone application. For Prism Firefox Extension, Once you have installed the extension and restarted the browser, you can turn any web site into a Prism application by choosing “Create Application for this Website” in the Tools menu. Standalone Prism Application, download and running the app, then simply fiill out the URL of the website you want to turn into an application, give it a name and select where you want the shortcut to be created, then click OK, and you done