Prism

Transform web applications into desktop programs.

Prism is an extension developed by Mozilla Firefox for your own browser with which you will be capable to create desktop application using web applications. With Prism you won't need the browser to access Internet and use these services: you will simply have to create a desktop application using an online program.

Web applications, a new software concept

In the latest years the great proliferation of online services has changed the way in which software is used. The possibility to use online program thus avoiding installing them locally has supposed a real revolution. With Prism you will be capable of converting each one of these services into a specific program on your computer with its corresponding direct access.

Place web applications on your desktop.

Features

• Create desktop applications from online services.
• Very simple procedure: estabilish the URL of the online service and create their application instantly.
• Place the direct access anywhere on your operating system: integrate it into the Start menu, on your desktop, in the quick start bar, in the dock of your Mac OS...
• Capable of detecting web application packages embedded in pages offering the possibility to install them.
• Choose the icon that you like most for each desktop application that you create.
• Configure the applications so that they show alert messages.
• Reduce the CPU power used by the browser by launching the programs separately.
• Establish any of these new applications to be launched with the system.
• Access information about the application's status from the system tray or from the dock.

Create Prism applications directly from Firefox

Once you install Prim a new entry will appear in the “Tool” menu of your Mozilla Firefox browser. “Convert Website to Application” is the entry that opens the tools options. Perform the corresponding adjustments in it before you confirm the options and instantly obtain the program on your desktop.

Requirements:

• It only works on Firefox 3.6 or earlier.