[pricecomstock]

For anyone who doesn't want to download something extra and is willing to DIY the launch shortcut, you can do this with Firefox (and Chrome too I believe).

1. Go to about:config and set browser.ssb.enabled to true.

2. Restart Firefox

3. Click ... in the address bar and then "use this site in app mode"

4. Launch directly from command line or shortcut: firefox -ssb "https://news.ycombinator.com"

[saulrh]

Looks like ff's single-site browsers can't run extensions, which means they're not really useful for me. Every site I'd want to app-ify is also one I want to modify extensively.