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Ask Slashdot: Chromeless Cross-Platform Browser?

Posted by timothy on from the oh-you-want-everything dept.

blakieto writes "Mozilla has the Prism project, which turned into Chromeless, which seems to have died [Note: last update was May 31]. I'm seeking a no-interface-what-so-ever cross-platform browser for use as a 'user interface host' to a self-hosted web app. Slight background: I've a professional market web app, with a large portion of the customer base unable to access public Internet connections. So, I want to make a version of my product self-hosted, with the web server and web app and everything necessary to run the web app locally installed on a user's machine. I have everything except a chromeless browser. Oh, and my customers are local police & highway patrol type organizations, most likely running an aged Windows box (probably IE6, too)."

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  1. Easy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Use firefox with --chrome="path_to_your_homepage"

  2. Chromeless is not dead by kripkenstein · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm not sure I understand. Prism still exists, and it sounds like what you want, so I don't understand why you say it "turned into Chromeless."

    I think he meant this announcement, that focus is shifting from Prism to Chromeless.

    But, OP is wrong about "[Chromeless] seems to have died [Note: last update was May 31]" - yes, the last blogpost was May 31, but the last source code commit on github was less than a month ago. That doesn't sound 'dead' to me.

    So Chromeless sounds like the way to go here, for what OP is looking for.