Mozilla has announced that Prism version 0.9 is now available as an extension for Firefox 3. See the official Mozilla Labs announcement or Marke Finkle's Blog for more information.
Installing the extension is simple but does require Firefox 3 since it relies on Firefox 3's ability to allow other applications to use its XULRunner platform. As an Ubuntu user, the simplest way to install Firefox 3 is to enable the Unsupported Updates Repository and use Synaptic. Update: Save yourself some headaches with the Prism extension and follow the instructions at Tombuntu (still very simple and applies to Firefox beta 4 too). Once installed, start Firefox 3 and install Prism.
My first (and only) attempt at converting a website to an application failed. The problem was that the wizard wouldn't actually save the Web Application icon to the desktop. And without this I saw no way to launch Prism. I hope this is a Linux specific bug that will be ironed out soon. I'll post again once I get to play with Prism more.
As an aside, using Firefox 3 was nice. Compared to Firefox 2, it felt a lot snappier and faster at rendering pages. Hopefully some lagging extensions will support Firefox 3 soon.
Friday, March 7, 2008
Prism: Now an Extension for Firefox 3
2 comments:
Sorry to hear it failed to install a webapp. Did you file a bug so we can figure out the reason? Make sure you give the URL you were trying to convert. Thanks
I just filed the bug. Thanks for the hint :)
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