DISQUS

John · 2 years ago

Great idea !!
Thanks Tom for posting this !

Atomicron · 2 years ago

Thanks for posting this Tom. I've been playing around with WebRunner 0.7 as I really like the idea of making Web Applications first class citizens on the desktop.

I've noticed some performance issues compared to Firefox though. Namely, WebRunner takes a lot longer to start-up compared to Firefox and the page rendering seems a bit off too.

Have you noticed anything similar?

Tom · 2 years ago

Atomicron,
I have had no performance issues with WebRunner, it starts much faster than Firefox. Page rendering seems to be the same as Firefox, but I have not tested it on a lot of sites yet.

LGR · 2 years ago

That looks great. I will have to give it a try. Nothing I hate more than having Firefox crash while I have docs open and Stumbling at the same time.

Emanuelle · 2 years ago

Thanks for the explanations :)

I can't get it to run without sudo, though, which is a problem, because I can't click links. I've put the whole webrunner folder as 777, I've changed the owner from root to user, and I still get an error message: "Could not initialize the application's security component."

Any suggestions?

Tom · 2 years ago

Emanuelle,
The only other thing I can think of would be to try installing and running WebRunner from your home folder.

Emanuelle · 2 years ago

That didn't work, but then I discovered that there was also a hidden webrunner folder, and changing its chmod to 777 did the trick :)

Isaac Geronimo · 2 years ago

Very cool! I used to mess around with "HTA" ("HTML Applications") back when I used Windows, so this is kind of neat to me. I'm wondering how it will seem if one were to navigate away from one of these "Web application" sites, but then again, if one sees a Web mail application in the task list and there isn't an address bar, they'll probably be inclined to go ahead and use it simply as a mail application. I'm looking forward to experimenting with it, thanks!