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By: Colin Dean

Colin Dean — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:30:13 +0000

Prism is great for me on 9.04. I use it for company Zimbra and Meebo, and have used it in past for Gmail and GCal.

It’s disappointing to hear that it’s broken in 9.10. Hopefully it’ll be fixed in 10.04. Looks like I’ll be trying out Chromium’s feature in the meantime.

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[...] Pushing Prism on Ubuntu One of Ubuntu’s most useful but rarely discussed features is one-click installation of a variety of popular webapps via Mozilla’s Prism. Here’s a look at what Prism can do in Ubuntu, with some thoughts on why Canonical should work harder to push features like this. [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:25:57 +0000

I think that as more and more Apps become WebApps… that this Prism and the WebApp browser window will become more popular.

It would be TRIVIAL to great a bunch or Google Short Cut WebApp menu links, pointing to not only Google WebApps, but everything else too…

In fact, it would be interesting for someone to collect all WebApps, make a HUGE menu for it, and see just how many WebApps have been made, which can replace ( to some extent ) local installed Apps.

Example is Bespin ( a canvas code editing WebApp which you can edit any type of file, with code completetion, syntax highlighting and all that jazz. )

By: Jef Spaleta

Jef Spaleta — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:18:11 +0000

scotty:

Uhm just because it doesn’t work correctly in Ubuntu… doesn’t mean Mozilla is neglecting it. Distributors make choices that can impact how an application works. Have you tried the Prism binaries directly from Mozilla?

-jef

By: scotty

scotty — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:38:46 +0000

I have to echo the Chrome sentiments. I had been using Prism apps for a long time but Prism has been neglected bu Mozilla. It’s a pain to set up, hasn’t worked correctly in recent Ubuntu releases, and won’t use extensions.

Making a “stand alone” web app with Chrome is so much easier, runs so much more smoothly, and uses any applicable extensions already installed in Chrome.

Why anyone would “push” Prism now is beyond me.

By: chrisinspace

chrisinspace — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:03:30 +0000

I like Prism, but Mozilla needs to pull it out of the lab and give it more attention. It’s not always stable and I have come across some quirky bugs. The think I can’t understand at all is why you have to hack Prism to make it work with Gears. This would be an ideal pairing and a major selling point if the integration was easy or maybe even default. At that point, your web apps that support Gears would truly become a hybrid of cloud-based and stand-alone.

By: David Sugar

David Sugar — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:33:50 +0000

Prism, at least in Karmic, is partially broke at the moment. While it is possible to change default (and minimal) font settings and sizes in Prism, I find it necessary to do so to be able to see or read. However, these settings are not saved between invocations, making Prism captive web applications a chore to try and use.

Prism is not the same as F11 full screen, in that it is a desktop window, just minus all the toolbars and firefox application menu. This could make it ideal in an environment for using pre-bundled web apps on netbooks (for example on Ubuntu UNR), where screen space is limited, especially vertically.

By: Malte

Malte — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:01:44 +0000

Can’t really see what’s wrong with using Firefox and hitting F11 for full screen and prism.

By: d0od

d0od — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:42:26 +0000

I wouldn’t exactly say Chrome’s webapp feature is badly placed – it’s at the top of option icon!

It also, imo, works much better than Prism. There are no faffy icons or status bars just width-to-width, height-to-height webapp. Pixlr, google tasks, twittergadget all look divine in it and just like native apps! Changing icons is a cinch, too. With Prism you have to manually replace the icon in /usr/opt/mozilla/prism_XUL (something along those lines, been an age since i used Prism).

The best part of using Chrome webapps over Prism is that -ALL- your extensions work in it – adblock, userscripts, the works. Makes for a seamless experience.

Prism can support extensions in theory, but all have to manually downloaded, extracted, hacked, repacked and then installed. Much fuss.

By: Chad

Chad — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:51:50 +0000

9.10 broke Prism for me. Doesn’t work in UNR either. The other problem with Prism is that Noscript or Adblock don’t work. I had a windows machine that almost got infected with bad javascript from an ad network that was supplying Slacker Radio with ads

By: Jef Spaleta

Jef Spaleta — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:40:46 +0000

animaster:
Yes I expect that as Chrome OS matures, the Create Application Shortcuts in the Chrome browser are going to become more important with a UI redesign to make it more obvious. Chris missed it, so that’s a good indication that other casual Chrome users have missed it to.