As mentioned above, there's something similar for the Mac, which wraps up WebKit (Safari Engine). I use it to make a Google Calendar 'App'. I should check out Prism on my PC at work to wrap up Gecko the same way.
Although I love having my calendar available to me from anywhere, I interact with it as an application, and not as a web page, and I don't want it to get lost in the clutter of my myriad tabs. This isn't true for the other Google apps that I use. I am a sporadic (at best!) user of Docs, so don't need to keep that loaded, and although I am an obsessive user of Google Reader, I am explicitly interacting with it and its results as web content, and the last thing I want is to take that _out_ of my web browsing.
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Although I love having my calendar available to me from anywhere, I interact with it as an application, and not as a web page, and I don't want it to get lost in the clutter of my myriad tabs. This isn't true for the other Google apps that I use. I am a sporadic (at best!) user of Docs, so don't need to keep that loaded, and although I am an obsessive user of Google Reader, I am explicitly interacting with it and its results as web content, and the last thing I want is to take that _out_ of my web browsing.