Fluid 0.9.4.1

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Posted 15 October 2008 - 03:51 PM

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#2 SamTheGeek

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Posted 15 October 2008 - 05:25 PM

Safari 4 will have the function described in the article. It's already available...if you have an Apple Developer Connection account. It's a free download, but with a few caveats. It's not totally stable, nor is it compatible with many plugins. It also completely replaces Safari 3.0 on your mac.

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Posted 15 October 2008 - 05:48 PM

Safari 4 is under developer's NDA, and as such, any discussion of what features it does, or does not have, is not allowed.
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Posted 15 October 2008 - 07:16 PM

Lemme tell ya what a great utility this is! I DL'd Fluid and applied it to my Pandora player. It sits there on my desktop to be used whenever I choose.
However, the icon looked a little raggedy, so I did a "pandora icon" Google search and copied a beautifully done icon at http://www.flickr.co...sr/2768279921/. I opened the Info (Cmd-I) for the Pandora Browser app and pasted it in place of the original image. Lovely!
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Posted 15 October 2008 - 08:34 PM

This product seems to fill a need in Safari. I think I've had this functionality and more for years in OmniWeb. It's not free, but if I spread the cost over my surfing time, it comes out to less than one penny per hour. I'm worth it.

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Posted 15 October 2008 - 08:43 PM

I wasn't aware OmniWeb can create standalone applications out of web sites? I know it has workspaces, but that is not the same thing. Fluid is not a Safari solution -- it's a web browsing solution. It creates applications -- full-fledged, standalone applications--from any URL you give it. You can then run those applications whenever you want, without running a "real" web browser at any time.

If this "make standalone" feature is in OmniWeb, can you show me where, as I'm not seeing it? Or is it some other feature that I'm not familar with?

thx;
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Posted 15 October 2008 - 09:06 PM

Sorry. It seems I had missed the point of your article. I had thought that the issues being addressed were (1) losing web pages during a crash and (2) inability to isolate one or two out of dozens of web pages. OmniWeb addresses (1) by default, I think, and (2) with workspaces. I typically have several hundred pages spread over a dozen or so workspaces. But, no, I don't think OmniWeb creates stand-alone applications.

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Posted 16 October 2008 - 03:39 AM

Tom:
Those were just general issues I used to illustrate possible roles for Fluid; sorry for any confusion. The real power of Fluid is that it creates true standalone programs, which can then be used on their own, outside of any of the usual OS X browsers.
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Posted 16 October 2008 - 07:53 AM

Fluid's weakness in past revisions was that in an operating system that has been coming to specialize in search everywhere, it had very poor search. That was fixed a few versions ago, but unfortunately I'm out of the habit of using Fluid now.

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Posted 16 October 2008 - 06:37 PM

I'm using Firefox 3.0.3 on a Macbook Pro with 2 GB RAM and Mac os 10.5.5. Firefox tends to crash for me fairly often. I keep 6 or 7 tabs open all the time: Gmail, Google Reader, Google Calendar, Google Docs (and local movies, a google doc) VT and MacUpDate and sometimes Titan TV. I tried using Fluid for Google Calendar and Google Docs movies and when trying to update these now stand alone apps, they tend to crash too.

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Posted 16 October 2008 - 07:38 PM

As Fluid is really just a browser, if something routinely causes your browser to crash, it will probably crash Fluid-created browsers as well. However, the advantage is that these crashes won't then take out your 10 other open tabs...

-rob.

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Posted 17 October 2008 - 02:17 PM

Great article.
But I find it a little ironic that right when I loaded this page, Safari crashed, and I lost all my tabs (but I was able to recover them).

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Posted 17 January 2009 - 07:18 AM

Rob, it's quite disingenuous to criticize when the author does the same - saying Safari 4 has this feature - but gets away with it by using the word "rumor"????