Minimalist, Useful, but rough

I worked as a front end developer thus, my life is browsers so Fluid app struck my curiousity. I’m a bit iffy on the morality of repackaging the webkit with a fancy UI. Fluid’s user-agent string reports interestingly as iOS but without touch events. While the default UA reports it as Safari 6.0, the support is essentially the same as Safari 9 desktop. Immediately a few real cons are apparent: Fluid doesn’t support any privacy setitngs, there’s no way to install popular JS tracking blockers like Ghostery or other useful plugins like 1password. Preferences are spartan, User Agent changing, clear cache and history, and really that’s about it as for setitngs of consequence. There’s also no development tools. Want inspect element? look elsewhere.

Usuage is straight forward, its simply a browser that’s always ontop with an address bar that disappears. Clever, but perhaps not so much that it warrents it own price.

Slickninja about Fluid Browser