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Comment by Mikeb85 | Hacker News Reader

So it's just the website in a chromium wrapper? So I'd be downloading ~50mb for something that I already have in Chrome? I'm trying to find a feature it has that I can't get through Chrome...

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> I'm trying to find a feature it has that I can't get through Chrome...

An individually dockable app with a badge icon showing unread messages?

And if you use something like Fluid.app you can create an app per email account and even have a separate app for your Calendar like me! Unfortunately Fluid.app is poorly maintained and based on Safari...

Check out https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier, it's like fluid in that it builds a standalone app for any website, incl. support for badges and segregated cookies.

Ooh, thank you! This looks promising, I'll check it out!

I've used nativefier to create apps for Gmail (two separate accounts), facebook, trello, and soundcloud. Even though it feels ridiculous to create a huge app to just wrap a website, it works quite well.

For some odd reason I couldn't get the badges to work well for gmail though.

The badges work, just not very well; I noticed that it takes a long time for them to get displayed/refreshed. Like you, I created one for Google (mostly to keep tracking cookies segregated), Facebook and GMail, but I've switched to WMail because the new mail badge works flawlessly there (and I need a reliable new email indicator).

Perhaps a little more privacy? You can browse the web without being logged into Google.

I know you can have separate Chrome users, but this may separate concerns slightly more. Not sure.

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