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dh04000
May 12th, 2011, 04:52 PM
I have a firefox stable ppa, that keeps my firefox and thunderbird installions updated with stable releases. But, I can't seem to find Prism in a stable ppa.

Anyone know where to find that?

I'd like to create an Angry Birds desktop shortcut based on the newest prism, which should be firefox 4.0 based, which supports html5 well.

I'm on Lucid.

dh04000
May 12th, 2011, 05:21 PM
Anyone know. I'd like to test this with the newest Prism, so I could write up a guide for it.

juancarlospaco
May 12th, 2011, 07:04 PM
Prism is no longer developed by Mozilla Labs.
Dead

dh04000
May 12th, 2011, 07:10 PM
What's my alternative?

speedwell68
May 12th, 2011, 08:54 PM
What's my alternative?

Chrome/Chromium.

dh04000
May 12th, 2011, 10:03 PM
Chrome/Chromium.

Hmmmmm..... I was hoping for something non-browser specific. But, I did some research on my own, and I found that there really isn't any alternative than chrome until mozilla's chromeless project comes to fruition.

Too Bad. A desktop launcher for Angry Birds would have been sexy.

speedwell68
May 12th, 2011, 10:34 PM
Hmmmmm..... I was hoping for something non-browser specific. But, I did some research on my own, and I found that there really isn't any alternative than chrome until mozilla's chromeless project comes to fruition.

Too Bad. A desktop launcher for Angry Birds would have been sexy.

You could just create a standard desktop launcher pointing at the address of Angry Birds. But that would only open a standard FF window and not an application window like Prism would have. I am a bit disappointed that development of Prism didn't continue past FF 3.6.

beew
May 12th, 2011, 10:37 PM
Prism is no longer developed by Mozilla Labs, although this documentation will still be useful to those using WebRunner (see next paragraph). There are now two alternatives:
The Prism code was picked up by Matthew Gertner who started a company to continue its open source development under the name WebRunner (http://www.salsitasoft.com/webrunner/). See his blog post at http://www.salsitasoft.com/blog/2011/04/18/packaging-webrunner-applications/
Mozilla Labs itself started a new project called Chromeless (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Chromeless). See their blog post at http://mozillalabs.com/blog/2011/02/prism-is-now-chromeless/


https://wiki.mozilla.org/Prism

speedwell68
May 12th, 2011, 10:55 PM
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Prism

I found that too and have just been playing with Webrunner. I installed it and it instantly killed my FF profile. Some reading is required me thinks.

I will admit that I use Chromium just so I can have a desktop app to access Webmin on my server, that is all I use it for.