Comments on: Prism for Firefox: desktop web apps just got easier

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:17:04 +0000

No not lame. What’s lame is you criticizing something just because you don’t personally have a use for it. I’m not blind, but I don’t go out of my way to go to the JAWS screenreader forums to call JAWS lame.

I personally like Prism. I have a web app I use for work. However, when using that, the navigation buttons, search bars, address bars, StumbleUpon bar, etc., have no value for me, and in fact can cause problems since the app can react badly when navigation buttons are used. I do like all that stuff when I’m using my browser for other stuff and not using the app. So, if I’m using it, I can pull it up in a nice, clean window. If I am in FF and just want to pull it up in a tab, nothing is stopping me from doing that.

With regards to resources, running the app in Prism uses less than opening it alone in Firefox. This obviously comes with the loss of some FF features that would come in handy, but usually works well. Opening several Prism instances vs. several tabs in FF might be a different situation. If I were betting, I’d gamble on the tabs being faster, but I don’t know.

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By: steveballmer

steveballmer — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:46:06 +0000

Lame! Lame! Lame!

sheesh!

By: Fitch

Fitch — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:43:54 +0000

I’m having a hard time figuring out why I’d want the app to load in a separate window instead of my browser. Just for organization? It will just eat up more system resources than just running it in the browser, right?