Synthese
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Synthese is an open source application for Windows written in vb.net. The goal is to give you the feeling that you are working with normal desktop apps, when in reality, you're actually using a website.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- .NET Framework
Discontinued
The official website is no longer available.
Features
- Place websites on desktop
- Desktop Widget
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Developed by
NoxonsoftLicensing
Open Source and Free product.Alternatives
4 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
What is Synthese?
Synthese is an open source application for Windows written in vb.net. The goal is to give you the feeling that you are working with normal desktop apps, when in reality, you're actually using a website. With Synthese you never have to start up your entire browser and navigate to that single webpage. Now you only have to click an icon on your desktop and voila, you're good to go!
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Comments and Reviews
Synthese is a great alternative for Mozilla Prism that have been discontinued, well more like re-created and renamed to Chromeless by Mozilla.
It use the Xulrunner and run on Trident for now, but they say that a next update will upgrade the engine to gecko ! And it's a great news, if they integrate the main great functions of the last version of Firefox, like plugins, themes, addons, Bookmarks, etc… it can be really interesting !
If they create a "portable desktop-web-app creator" to pack the created app with Synthese to a portable format, then no need to install anything all is in the package, the webmasters can create a desktop version of their online or browser based app, add their custom addons specific for the website, and then share it easily to the users ! (think to suggest this to them too :] )
Well the navigation miss some things, but if you want to turn any website to a desktop app in less than one minute, you can try Synthese immediately! You will see that it's really convenient, and fastest than opening a browser waiting for all to be loaded, login, etc…
Synthese store the coockies and cache in a specific folder too, and if you open an instance of your web-app and login with any social account, you can open another instance and you will be logged immediately.
(+) Plus × Really easy to use, consume not much RAM too, it's great. × Launch the webapp creator, enter a site name, the url, chose the favicon if there isn't any, and save, you can move freely the created shortcut. × A future update will upgrade the engine from trident (internet explorer) to gecko (Mozilla Firefox), there is a possibility to see many functions of Firefox in synthese ! (plugins, addons? well I hope it!). × Use the XulRunner created by Mozilla for their Prism software (now named "Chromeless"), but without the "duplicate all cache and temp data" of Prism, it create 1 user config, store each websites cache to respective folders, and use shortcuts to set icons, names, url of the websites. × Work perfectly with javascript, anchors, and most of the modern websites systems.
(-) Cons × Inexisting Navigation & URL bar. × The mouse context menu is used for navigation, but it's all…. × The Flash Player plugin can consume a lot of ressources (CPU). × No real configuration to do. × A little laggy on flash websites.