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.

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

· FluidInstance.app: FIX for crasher when attaching files when Safari4 is installed
· FluidInstance.app: FIX SSB browser window minimum width returned to 180px which is friendlier for iphone-optimized sites
· FluidInstance.app: FIX Selected download folder now persists correctly.
· FluidInstance.app: FIX drag/reordering tabs now works correctly (Before they were not *truly* reordered and you would see strange behavior when using keyboard shortcuts for next/prev tab)
· FluidInstance.app: FIX Annoying "Are you sure you want to close this window?" dialog no longer shown when you close the last window with multiple tabs and "Closing the last window only hides the window" pref is set
· FluidInstance.app: NEW added 'Download Linked File As...' context menu item
· FluidInstance.app: NEW Preference: Hide all windows while not active
· FluidInstance.app: FIX return of the 'Look up in Dictionary' context menu item for defining terms in Dictionary.app
· FluidInstance.app: FIX for bug where tab at incorrect index would be selected when closing the tab at the first index in a window with multiple tabs open
· FluidInstance.app: FIX only hide system menubar when entering FullScreen if the fullscreen screen is the screen with the menubar
· FluidInstance.app: FIX URLs are only added to the recent URL auto-complete list when a URL load is successful
· FluidInstance.app: FIX URLs can now be dragged from the location bar (via their favicon) to Firefox and non-webkit-based browsers to load the URL
· FluidInstance.app: FIX URLs can now be dragged from the location bar (via their favicon) to the Finder to create .webloc files (property lists)
· FluidInstance.app: FIX Removed crazy 1 second delay on SSB launch where first tab is visible and then hides.
· FluidInstance.app: FIX better feed subscription handling for Google Reader SSBs
· WebThumbnailPlugIn: FIX for crasher that could sometimes occur in Enhanced Google web thumbnail SERPs
· BrowsaBrowsaPlugIn: NEW Preference for opening clicked links in system default browser
· BrowsaBrowsaPlugIn: FIX "New windows open with" preference now defaults to "Home Page"
· Fluid.app: NEW Drag image files (jpg, tiff, png), icon files (icns) or applications (app) to the Fluid window to specify your custom SSB icon.
· Fluid.app: NEW Keyboard shortcuts for setting the installation locatoin to Applications, Home or Desktop
· Fluid.app: FIX fixed strange issue where Fluid.app would not become frontmost app on very first launch (it kinda hid in the background)