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Ok, so rant here. This shows the problem with browser apps. This is the sort of thing I find useful when I am doing JSON heavy work. However when I am working

by jiggy2011 14y ago

Ok, so rant here. This shows the problem with browser apps. This is the sort of thing I find useful when I am doing JSON heavy work. However when I am working I often end up with about 20+ tabs open in my browser that I switch between quite regularly. So everytime I want to get back to this I have to find which tab I left it in. I should be able to dock this like my other apps and switch back and forth between this and my general browsing session like I do my browser and terminal. Would also be way more usable with keyboard shortcuts which are not conductive to a browser environment.

grinich 14y ago
You can do exactly that with packaged apps in Chrome. http://developer.chrome.com/apps/about_apps.html http://developer.chrome.com/apps/about_apps.html
- jiggy2011 14y ago
  Looks good, sadly seems to require work on the part of the developer. Would be great to just be able to do this on arbitrary webpages.
  - gsibble 14y ago
    I use Fluid to take websites that I use constantly and turn them into essentially native Mac apps. Works like a charm: http://fluidapp.com/ http://fluidapp.com/ Examples: Pivotal, Harvest, Planscope, YCN
  - sauerbraten 14y ago
    On Github there is a link to the Chrome App:https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/json-editor/lhkmoheomjbkfloacpgllgjcamhihfaj https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/json-editor/lhkmoh...
  - k3n 14y ago
    But wait, there's more! You can definitely do that; see the "Create shortcuts for other apps" section of this help page[1]. You can make a shortcut that can be used like any other Windows shortcut (say, in the quicklaunch), it takes on the icon of the page's favicon (both the shortcut icon and the window's icon), and it launches in its own window. Also, see here[2] for additional options (like auto-maximize support). 1. https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95710 https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an... 2. http://superuser.com/questions/338266/how-can-i-make-chrome-application-shortcuts-start-maximized http://superuser.com/questions/338266/how-can-i-make-chrome-...
hayksaakian 14y ago
Windows are still a thing.
pssdbt 14y ago
If you're on OS X, http://fluidapp.com/ http://fluidapp.com/

grinich 14y ago

You can do exactly that with packaged apps in Chrome. http://developer.chrome.com/apps/about_apps.html http://developer.chrome.com/apps/about_apps.html

jiggy2011 14y ago
Looks good, sadly seems to require work on the part of the developer. Would be great to just be able to do this on arbitrary webpages.
- gsibble 14y ago
  I use Fluid to take websites that I use constantly and turn them into essentially native Mac apps. Works like a charm: http://fluidapp.com/ http://fluidapp.com/ Examples: Pivotal, Harvest, Planscope, YCN
- sauerbraten 14y ago
  On Github there is a link to the Chrome App:https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/json-editor/lhkmoheomjbkfloacpgllgjcamhihfaj https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/json-editor/lhkmoh...
- k3n 14y ago
  But wait, there's more! You can definitely do that; see the "Create shortcuts for other apps" section of this help page[1]. You can make a shortcut that can be used like any other Windows shortcut (say, in the quicklaunch), it takes on the icon of the page's favicon (both the shortcut icon and the window's icon), and it launches in its own window. Also, see here[2] for additional options (like auto-maximize support). 1. https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95710 https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an... 2. http://superuser.com/questions/338266/how-can-i-make-chrome-application-shortcuts-start-maximized http://superuser.com/questions/338266/how-can-i-make-chrome-...

hayksaakian 14y ago

Windows are still a thing.

pssdbt 14y ago

If you're on OS X, http://fluidapp.com/ http://fluidapp.com/