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WebDesktop 2.5


WebDesktop WebDesktop allows you to put a web browser on your desktop.

System Requirememts
Mac OS 10.4 or higher
Download Details
Company Steven Frank
Version 2.5
Post Date September 28, 2009
License Freeware
File Size 70 KB
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WebDesktop 2.5


WebDesktop allows you to put a web browser on your desktop.
WebDesktop allows you to view a web page layered over your desktop picture, with optional periodic refreshing.

WebDesktop layers a web browser over your Mac OS X desktop.

Any standard web page can be displayed. WebDesktop uses WebKit, Apple's HTML rendering engine from Safari, so web pages should appear exactly as they do in Safari, including such advanced features as CSS and Flash. But on your desktop.

Bringing WebDesktop to the front allows full interaction with the page, including scrolling, navigation, and form input.

In WebDesktop's preferences, you can specify an automatic refresh interval so that the page on your desktop is reloaded every minute, every 5 minutes, every hour, etc... This is useful for keeping up to date with pages that update frequently.

What's New in This Release:

  • Now remembers last URL shown
  • Additional (longer) refresh intervals added
  • JavaScript alert messages from page are logged to Console
  • Fixed JavaScript that didn't work on some sites (especially Google Maps API)
  • Compiled with latest Xcode
  • Now a Universal binary (Intel Mac native)