This is a really cool idea, it’s a site-specific browser, similar to Fluid on OS X. This has alerts and such that come up as well, and it’ll sit in your KDE task bar. I’m digging it so far. I suspect that it’ll play nice in other DEs as well.
The app is available as a .deb as well as a source package, and many different OS’ and configurations are available. I’m using the Ubuntu package since I’m in Kubuntu land. This app does appear to be receiving updates, the most recent one according to openDesktop.org was on September 3rd, 2013.
Here are the features I see:
- Supports SSL Facebook (very important for me since I have an ISP which engages in DPI)
- Works with two-factor authentication with Facebook
- Simply uses the web UI of Facebook (I see this as a plus, not a minus, that way I’m not stuck waiting for someone to implement changes that Facebook threw into an API update)
- Very lovely Facebook blue window border, fits in very nicely
Here are some areas that I would like to see improved:
- I’d like to be able to resize the window
- I’d like it not to crash when something tries to use Flash (too much stuff on Flash crashes)
- It’d be neat to not have to log in again every time I opened the app.
I think that with only some minor changes, this app could be one that I keep running in the background all the time. I’d love to see something like it for Twitter as well.
Here’s the app: Facebook openDesktop.org.