I’ve been trying to get back to using web-apps as separate apps outside of my browsers for a few weeks. Each of them falls short of me moving away from browsers + profiles, and I thought sharing those would help someone else:

WebCatalog

• Link handling UX is difficult to use and is REGEX based.
• Userscripts UX is also hard to use.
• Notifications do not always work.
• No tabs (deal breaker for e.g., Github).

Unite

• Sometimes new tabs do not work.
• New tabs always show the toolbar permanently.
• Uneven toolbar UI.
• No custom User Agent configuration; Google stuff doesn’t work.

Fluid

• Old, hasn’t been updated in a long time!
• JavaScript that opens new tabs to URLs not in your whitelist do not get thrown to the external default browser, but instead a new tab is opened.

Right now I’m still using Google Chrome profiles for most of the things. For Asana (because I feel it needs to be a separate app, and I have a few custom userscripts), I’m using WebCatalog so it throws new link clicks (handled by JavaScript) to my default browser (Choosy).

Fluid is probably the best of the bunch right now, and I can use tabs (though the UI looks outdated and clunky) for Github, which I feel tabbed browsing is a must.

WebCatalog has the most potential, if only they would find a way to allow tabs!