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by lucideer-dev
widgetise

Converts webpages into desktop apps - similar to Mozilla Prism and Fluid for MacOS

Click here for a larger screenshot [1280×770px - 304.9kb]

A very small and unobtrusive app that lets you turn any webpage into a standalone app and place a shortcut to it on your desktop.

Fixed!! :cheers:

Instructions for use

  • Simply drag the "Widgetise" button to any toolbar of your choosing
  • Visit a website
  • Click "Widgetise"


Known issues
  • Gmail and other Google apps (like Docs) work poorly/don't work at all due to frame-breakout scripts - as far as I know there is no solution to this unless Google change their code. Twitter.com has also recently added some variation on these anti-frame measures.
  • Problems have been reported with sites that use popups (e.g. Yahoo webmessenger)
  • This app currently doesn't work with Opera 10.10 - a backport is planned though so it should soon enough hopefully


Coming in the next version
  • A new icon/logo - submissions very welcome
  • Favicons for all widgets you create
  • Ability to customise the widget when creating - height, width, icon, etc.
  • Support Opera 10.10
  • A prettier remote "access blocked" page
  • Moar stuff - maybe something networkish - feature requests welcome


Thanks to Artemy Tregubenko and Daniel Hendrycks for suggesting/inspiring this idea

This app is hosted on bitbucket at http://bitbucket.org/lucideer/widgetise/


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I saw this and thought it was a great idea but it doesnt work for me. I widgetise a window and when it opens it is simply a black window, whats wrong?

By tmc8295, # Jan 21, 2012 6:42:08 PM

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Not too satisfied with this application. Window load time is delayed and opens larger than my monitor (currently using two monitors, running 64 bit windows 7 ultimate, opera 11.51)
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By jmtedesco, # Oct 20, 2011 8:34:40 PM

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We need support for Google Aps, like Google Reader!!!

By kszumny, # May 26, 2011 11:20:17 AM

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doesn't work for tweeter but very useful for other applications ^^
thank you and i hope the update's coming soon...

By benavern, # May 7, 2011 1:21:46 PM

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Works for me, using Opera About Opera v11.10, Build 2092 on
PCLinuxOS i686, 2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs, Browser ID: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.8.131 Version/11.10 ... I used it on the YouTube page (even before reading frogstomp's reply ;D), got a blank box at first until I resized the box to make it a lot smaller, then the page showed very nicely!! ;D I think that it just took it a bit to show, it probably would have shown eventually before resizing? :s

By jqball2u, # Apr 19, 2011 1:53:18 AM

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It does not work correct with MAIL.RU

By dioctonis, # Jan 23, 2011 11:41:19 AM

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Awesome!!! Finally fixed (only now I noticed). Love this application

By Angelgrinder, # Nov 24, 2010 1:41:10 PM

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Казалось бы классный виджет! и полезный! Однако, не для каждого сайта...Удобно использовать для он-лайн игр, а вот для новостных страниц, я думаю, абсолютно не подходит, т.к. стандартный функционалитет Opera (жесты мышью, hotkeys, навигация, поиск на странице) отсутствуют.
Вердикт: очень узкий виджет.

By Yeagor, # Oct 15, 2010 3:38:49 AM

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This is brilliant, fantastic. I have been half succeeding with this for two or three years and this worked first time. Stunning.

By rvpert, # Sep 28, 2010 11:40:33 AM

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@ FaTaL & basarium
I've found the twitter issue. Seems to be again related to anti-frame stuff alas, similar to the Google Apps issue. I guess I'll have to change the screenshot P:

Seems a lot of sites are falling to this, I wonder if I can find some workaround via cross-frame scripting or some such - it doesn't seem possible, but one never knows.

By lucideer, # Sep 26, 2010 4:40:40 PM

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i have tried www.twitter.com to copy the example, and all i can get its a black screen
i am using opera 10.61
Same here.
Opera 10.61, Windows 7 on netbook.

By FataL, # Sep 17, 2010 4:16:03 AM

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@ basarium
I'm afraid I haven't been able to reproduce your black-screen problem. Have you tried uninstalling and re-creating the widget again?

@ IKoke
The .wgt archive is stored in your AppData folder (or .opera on *nix) for about 2 minutes.. and then deleted. See the very last line here for details: http://bitbucket.org/lucideer/widgetise/src/eec33c216cfa/output.js

@ James132
This has been requested before (see comments below) but isn't possible unless Opera decide to add it as a feature. As a workaround, you could try Proxomitron or Proximodo - they'll give you consistent adblocking across all browsers/web apps on your computer simultaneously.

By lucideer, # Sep 15, 2010 1:33:50 AM

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I'd really like the pages you Widget to reflect the content you have blocked in Opera. We go through all the effort of hiding the Banners and Ads, I don't want to see them again just because I opened a frequent page with the Widgetiser.

By James132, # Sep 14, 2010 7:10:13 PM

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i can finally use opera widgets thanks to this

By redlamborsche, # Sep 7, 2010 12:02:25 AM

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Perfect in 10.61

Where is the .wgt archive of the creation?

By IKoke, # Sep 6, 2010 7:23:23 AM

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i have tried www.twitter.com to copy the example, and all i can get its a black screen
i am using opera 10.61

how i can get this thing to work? any solutions?

ps: it could be nice if in the widgetize page you see a list of your widgetized applications and you could uninstall it, more than just a button

By basarium, # Sep 6, 2010 3:43:03 AM

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IT WORKS (finally)

By UD98, # Sep 5, 2010 9:57:01 PM

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WOW thanks!

By DZE-MasteR, # Sep 3, 2010 6:37:53 PM

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here is an interesting thing you can do with that witget:

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=701382&t=1283325083&page=1#comment6833492

By frogstomp, # Sep 1, 2010 7:11:46 AM

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Thanks for the update!!

By YamiCrystal, # Aug 29, 2010 1:44:23 AM

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