Open Serendipity

I am really having fun with Prism for Firefox.  Fun in the sense of wasting time picking out icons to represent standalone “applications” that I have created using Prism.   So far I’ve created standalone instances for a web calendar I use regularly and a couple of shared mailboxes  that I like to access via their web interface and this blog. 

Sometimes I need to load some large data sets on a web application that is not always well behaved, and sometimes that hangs or crashes Firefox.  I’m thinking of making a standalone copy of firefox just for using for such dangerous or potentially doomed operations, and giving it a skull and cross bones icon, or lightning, or something like that.  That way my work in all my other tabs will not be interrupted while I force-quit and restart Firefox, or rather that instance of Firefox.  I should just remember to do such operations in Safari since it normally can handle the challenge when Firefox fails, and I belatedly think of trying it in Safari.  But for normal work I prefer Firefox so I naturally use it by default.

The make-a-standalone-app-from-website for Safari is Fluid, but I have not used it.

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