Firefox: Prism, the Firefox add-on/stand-alone covering that turns scheme sites into concealment windows, has impact a 1.0 release, auspicious to permit you guardian and start sites aforementioned Gmail from your Mac cut or Windows tray.

When we last looked at Prism, we dug its knowledge to permit you removed the sites that are more aforementioned mini-applications—Gmail or character Mail, Remember the Milk, calendar apps, and, these days, Twitter, to study a few—from your browser, streaming them in their possess window, protecting them from covering crashes and restarts, and, with a some tweaks, ownership them unstoppered but discover of range in the system tray.

Mozilla’s caught on to this category of open-when-needed use, adding built-in hold for tray icons (on Windows) or grouping cut shortcuts (on Macs), along with minimizing the sites to those areas. The another beatific newborn things are type curb and clannish accumulation parcel for apiece pane (which was a not-too-small upset most the preceding Prism), and hold for notifications and picture updates when you’ve got a newborn message, chat, or another sound from your scheme applications (for those sites that hold it). I couldn’t quite amount discover how to intend newborn accumulation notifications or picture indicators display up, but the Prism Features page touts them as present. Anybody poverty to exhibit us how in the comments?

Meanwhile, here’s a short looking at what’s newborn in Prism. Click the thumbnails for a large analyse and a short description:

Finally, here’s a hurried dissent from Mozilla on creating a Prism app from a site, using the Firefox extension; they’ve also posted a tutorial for stand-alone Prism:

Got a enthusiastic intent on motion a place into a multipurpose concealment item? Looking for more from Mozilla’s adroit lowercase side-project? Tell us your thoughts in the comments.