Mozilla Prism now available for Mac and Linux

Posted Nov 11th 2007 11:00AM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Mozilla, Freeware, Open Source

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

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

11-11-2007 @ 2:45PM

Jake said...

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?).

11-11-2007 @ 2:51PM

yhancik said...

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

11-11-2007 @ 9:02PM

Franklin said...

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.

11-11-2007 @ 9:44PM

Pepe Gonzalez said...

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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