This allows you to manage your web applications along side your desktop apps. SSBs basically provide a single purpose application that launches a single web site with it's own window, process, and icon. We haven't talked much about site-specific-browsers or application shortcuts (Chrome's version of SSBs), but they can be a great way to make your web applications feel more like desktop apps. The script basically automates a solution that I found when looking around online, at the end of this post. While other options exist to create site specific browsers (SSB) based on Firefox (Prism) or Safari (Fluid), I'm a big fan of Chrome, so I wrote a little script that lets you create your own Chrome application shortcuts on a Mac. Unfortunately, application shortcuts are disabled in Chrome for Macs. ![]() One of the best features of Chrome is the ability to create "application shortcuts" that let you launch web sites as stand alone applications.
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