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Re: Mozilla Chromeless 0.2

#71

The recent Amazon outage, in which actual data was lost, would seem to make a case for NOT using this.

This has nothing to do with "the cloud", hosted content or anything - Chromless is an application launcher allowing applications to launch utilizing the Firefox engine - think of it as an Adobe AIR type product.

OK, fair enough. And where are those applications hosted? If it's local to the machine, then great. If it's it's out in "the cloud", then the reliability for applications, which may have been purchased, is iffy at best.

Re: Mozilla Chromeless 0.2

#72

I'd still like Prism to live on...it allows the user to turn any website into an application.

This feature is already beginning in Firefox 4 with App Tabs and will continue grow into the Prism-like platform without the need for a separate product. You should just be able to tell Firefox, "make this site an app" and not have to download Prism to get that.

I want it to run in a separate process and minimize to the system tray though...:(
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