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3 items tagged “webrunner”

2007

Prism Prototype Now Available on Mac and Linux. Prism is the new name for Mozilla Webrunner, a toolkit for building native desktop applications on top of the Mozilla technology stack.

# 11th November 2007, 10:21 pm / mozilla, prism, webrunner

Currently WebRunner applications share cookies with other WebRunner applications, but not with Firefox. WebRunner uses its own profile, not Firefox's profile. There is a plan to allow WebRunner applications to create their own, private profiles as well.

— Mark Finkle

# 30th September 2007, 4:08 pm / cookies, csrf, firefox, mark-finkle, security, sitespecificbrowsers, webrunner

WebRunner 0.7—New and Improved. A simple application for running a site-specific browser for a service (e.g. Twitter, Gmail etc). This is a great idea: it isolates your other browser windows from crashes and also isolates your cookies, helping guard against CSRF attacks.

# 27th September 2007, 1:55 pm / browsers, csrf, gmail, security, sitespecificbrowsers, twitter, webrunner, xulrunner

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