I’ve fallen in love with Fluid ever since I read the tutorial for building your own Muxtape app with Fluid. The slogan, “Your Web Browser is for Web Browsing”, started to make me think. It really is a bit silly that we use our browser to access web applications right alongside with research material, news, etc. I don’t use browser based email or RSS readers because I feel those are separate tasks from web browsing, so why should Muxtape, Facebook, and Wordpress be any different?

Building a Fluid Single Site Browser (SSB) is absurdly simple:

1. Open Fluid
2. Copy/Paste the site’s URL
3. Name your Application
4. Click create

Fluid will create a WebKit-based application that only accesses that site. From there you can add options or configure plugins. Fluid will automatically apply the site’s favicon as the application icon and install the app into /Applications.

It’s pretty nice to be able to access Facebook or this site’s admin section without having to crack open Safari.

— Alex Cabrera, May 29, 2008.