Firefox 3 Beta 4 and Prism 0.9 Work Very Well

As promised, here is a follow up on my previous post about running the latest version of Prism as an extension. Good news is: Prism on Ubuntu actually works now.

It would seem that installing Firefox 3 beta 4 from the Mozilla site solved a lot of the problems I was having. So far I haven't had any problems creating Webapp shortcuts for the Google Apps I use and as an added bonus it is easy to select an alternative icon (the favicon is a bit too small for some uses).

The most noticeable improvement is really not Prism related but due to the improvements in the Gecko Platform (see beta 4 release notes). Webapps start significantly faster now.

Another nice feature is that Prism instances run in a separate process now. It used be that all Webapps shared the same process. A poorly written Webapp should not be able to take down all Prism instances (in theory). Additionally, since cookies are isolated to each instance of Prism the chance of one Webapp running in Prism making an XSRF is greatly reduced since it won't have access to session cookies from other Webapps.

Happy Webapping