Are you a Gmail, Facebook, Campfire or (Insert Your Favorite Webapp Here) fanatic? Do you have 20 or more browser tabs open at all times?

Are you tired of some random site or Flash ad crashing your browser and causing you to loose your (say) Google Spreadsheets data in another tab?

If so, Site Specific Browsers (SSBs) provide a great solution for your webapp woes. Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite webapps as a separate desktop application.

Fluid gives any webapp a home on your Mac OS X desktop complete with standard menu bar, Dock icon, and logical separation from your other web browsing activity.

Fluid is highly inspired by the excellent Prism (formerly WebRunner) project by Mozilla Labs. Fluid is very similar in nature to Prism, but is based on Safari's WebKit rendering engine. And SSBs created by Fluid are true, native Cocoa OS X applications offering seamless integration into the Mac OS.

Limitations:

· This demo version will not allow you to create Fluid Apps with Separate Cookie Storage, to pin Fluid Apps to the Mac OS X Status Bar. (Fluid App Menu → Pin to Status Bar…) and to use Userscripts or Userstyles in your Fluid Apps. (Window → Userscripts).

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Changes in Fluid:
· BUGFIX: Able to create FluidApps for iCloud (and other webapps sending enigmatic -999 error).

Changes in Fluid Apps:
· NEW FEATURE: ⌘-1, ⌘-2, etc. switch to browser tab index.
· NEW FEATURE: Lion Only: Swipe Left/Right gestures for browser back/forward navigation.
· NEW FEATURE: New window.fluid JavaScript APIs: fluid.applcationPath, fluid.resourcePath, fluid.userscriptPath, fluid.include().
· ENHANCEMENT: Support for HTML5 pushState APIs
· ENHANCEMENT: Support for localStorage APIs
· ENHANCEMENT: Lion FullScreen state now preserved across launches.
· ENHANCEMENT: Better support for Google+.
· ENHANCEMENT: Updated Browser User-Agents.
· BUGFIX: FluidApps pinned to status bar now behave better across different sized displays.
· BUGFIX: Clear History menu item now works.
· BUGFIX: FullScreen keyboard shortcut should be ⌃⌘F.