This is an update to my post at:  Post Of Aweful Wrongness.

In that post, I said that I <3 Google Chrome, but that I missed Prism, and that the only thing that kept me from becoming a full-time Chromite was the lack of the ability to split off a web application into it’s own window/process.

Yeah, I know, the difference between a bare, Prism-style window is the lack of tabs and … chrome.  Sure, it sounds silly, but having a dedicated window over on my Taskbar is awesome.

Well, I found exactly what I was looking for by accident, in the “folded paper” button:

It was right there in my face, but I never opened those buttons!  Haha.  Anyway, click that there menu item and you see:

Bam!  It OK and you get a new icon on your desktop.  Double click the icon and your favorite URL open up, not only in it’s own Chrome process with V8 Javascript, but in it’s own window without silly browser chrome with it’s own button in the taskbar.

I’m so happy!  Especially as my Firefox/Chrome set up was a bit wonky.

I WAS WRONG: Update here.

I <3 Google Chrome.  It’s my most favorite and 1st choice browser.  It’s fast, quick, has tear away tabs, puts tabs and plugins into their own processes (and with my tricore processor and Windows Vista… that’s actually a pretty snazzy idea)… there’s only two features I miss from Firefox.

RSS Smart Dropdown Bookmarks in the Bookmark Bar, and Mozilla Prism.

Now, Prism isn’t actually part of Firefox;  you can get it standalone.  But why do that, when there’s the Prism for Firefox Extension?  This is really neat;  I’ve got a menuitem that lets me break a web application (say, Gmail) into a Prism, and it runs in it’s own process on the desktop.  Neat!

Looking into the process explorer, I found that the prisms running from Prism for Firefox use firefox.exe, not xulrunner.exe.  Super cool awesome, because I installed Google Gears, and now Gmail is running even more awesome than ever, INSIDE the prism-like applications, on my desktop!  Sweet!

Now I can have my two Gmail boxes open, 24/7, in Gmail, without cluttering my browser windows.  And I can happily use Google Chrome for all other browsing needs;  I get Firefox’s super fast javascript system and Google Gears running Gmail.

Once Google Chrome has a “Prism” type system (Heck, just let me run Chrome off the command line in tabless-and-address/navbarless mode, and you’ve got Prism right there!), I can see myself ditching Firefox for all but the tasks I can’t use in Chrome.  Sure, I’ll still have it around, like I have IE7 and Opera, just in case I need it… but I really don’t miss it!