Comments on: Turn Any Website Into a Self-Contained Mac App with Fluid

By: Uzi

Uzi — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:45:36 +0000

Same here any update to fix this?

By: Damian

Damian — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 04:32:52 +0000

I tried many times but it doesn’t work for me, I get the error message:

“Fluid could not create new fluid app

Could not connect to the server.”

any reason why?

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:18:17 +0000

This is not a copy of Prism.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:16:46 +0000

I use fluid frequently, but after Apple switched to making user download java directly from Oracle, the Fluid apps I made that make use of java have been broken.

I hope they get around to fixing it.

By: remraf

remraf — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:10:22 +0000

The developer says on their site that Fluid was inspired by Prism, so at least they give credit.

I have a Mac Mini as a HTPC, and use Plex. Recently, I “had it” with the constant issues with the Netflix Plug-in on Plex. So I turned to Fluid and made a stand alone app. The benefit? I can put that in my dock, and from a 10′ UI perspective, using Hippo Remote from my phone I can get into Netflix quickly and reliably. Nice!

By: Prynce

Prynce — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:52:35 +0000

Please check Mozilla license, this appears to be a copy of prizm or prism application Mozilla developed a couple years ago. I don’t know if the author can legally charge for this app.

By: Bergonse

Bergonse — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:55:57 +0000

Fluid can use Chrome instead of Safari as browser engine?

By: Robbertvdd

Robbertvdd — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:41:13 +0000

While reading this article and watching the video on the apps website, I was wondering how the menus of a Fluid App look like. I can’t find any information about this. Do Fluid Apps just use the same menu bar as Safari?

You say you can just enter another URL, but where do you enter this URL? There’s no address bar. Do Fluid Apps just use the same menu bar as Safari, so you can just click on “File” and then click on “Open location” to enter a URL. How about short cuts? Can you just press Cmd + T to open a second tab and show the tab bar?

By: Mr J

Mr J — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:22:52 +0000

Sounds interesting, and very useful for a specific-demographic website like mine.

I’ll try it and see what happens – better make a new improved favicon first though.

By: The Guy Behind The Guy

The Guy Behind The Guy — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 06:41:19 +0000

Notifications don’t work in paid version as promised and support is non-existent. Otherwise, great to have for gmail, gcal and other often used sites.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 02:29:04 +0000

Fluid crashed unexpectedly.
Mac OS X 10.7.5

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 01:15:05 +0000

That’s the reason I purchased fluid. So that FB and others do not track. I found it too many times Home Depot and Sears emails were right on the spot trying to help me with what I was googling.
I have the licensed version.

So do I still need to delete all the FB cookies all the time or can I del my browser history once and be cool after?

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:02:53 +0000

Very smart, good idea!

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:42:48 +0000

the only problem with that idea is that Fluid simply puts a webpage in it’s own window. You can then just type another URL into it and go to the page just like any other browser window.

By: cc

cc — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:22:58 +0000

Heard this trick on an InfoSecurity podcast: if you’re concerned about Facebook tracking your identity all over the web (which they can do with embedded LIKE buttons on sites which act as trackers) then get the Fluid upgrade and make a Facebook ‘app’ (and delete your Facebook cookies from your normal browsers).