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Mozilla's Prism: a First Look at a New Firefox Add-on

12.05.2009
Mozilla Labs has unveiled the beta of a new application called that takes the Internet off your browser and plants it onto your desktop. Prism is both a useful and a desktop app -- the latter for those who .

Prism 1.0 works in a similar fashion to the "create applications shortcuts" option in the . It culls data from the Web site of your choice and converts it into a desktop application. The app functions separately from the originating Web site, so when Firefox (inevitably) crashes, the desktop app is not affected.

The presents a few improvements and benefits to using desktop apps rather than solely relying on a Web page:

* New API functionality to allow Prism-enabled Web sites more desktop-like power.

* Capability to set fonts, proxy settings, and other application-specific settings.

* Capability to clear private data on demand.