Mozilla Prism now available for Mac and Linux

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Mozilla Prism now available for Mac and Linux

by Brad Linder Nov 11th 2007

Mozilla has launched Mac and Linux versions of Prism. What's Prism again? It's a stripped down version of Firefox that essentially lets you load a single web page at a time. No tabs, no useful URL or navigation buttons. But Prism can come in handy if you like to keep a single web site like Gmail open all day, since it uses fewer resources than Firefox.

The Linux build that we tested was a little wonky. Pressing F11 fails to make a window fullscreen. And Prism didn't seem to notice that Adobe Flash was installed, which made it pretty difficult to run certain web apps.

All in all, for a 0.8 release, we're not complaining. But there's still some work to be done.

[via Chip Cuccio]

Tags: firefox, prism, web-apps, webrunner

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jake said 2:45PM on 11-11-2007

I like it okay. My only complaint is that I can't change the default browser from Firefox (or maybe I simply can't find it?).

yhancik said 2:51PM on 11-11-2007

because you can't use it as a defaut browser, since it's not really a browser...

Franklin said 9:02PM on 11-11-2007

Jake, do you mean you want to make Prism your system's default? You can't do that, as Prism is not meant to be a browser.

Or do you mean that you want it so it doesn't load Firefox when you click on a link from within Prism? Well, then you have to change the setting for that within Firefox, and then adjust the settings of your preferred browser (e.g. IE, Opera) so it makes itself the default browser of your system.

Pepe Gonzalez said 9:44PM on 11-11-2007

Hmmm.. from the article:

By: Mozilla Labs
On: November 2nd, 2007 Posted In: Mozilla Labs

November 2nd!!! Today is Nov. 11th!!
And I've been using Prism on Linux since Nov. 1st (thanks to my hacking skills =p )

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