Soon, you’ll be able to pull your favorite website — like Gmail or YouTube — out of the web browser and run it as a stand-alone application on your computer’s desktop. Mozilla has announced that its Prism software, one such technology that makes it easy to run web apps on your desktop, is very close to a final release.
The Prism team is getting ready to push out a third beta release of Prism 1.0, which will include all the changes due to arrive in Firefox 3.6. If you’d like to help out testing Prism, you can download the standalone Prism 1.0b3pre from Prism developer Matt Gertner’s website.