{"id":10686,"date":"2011-07-27T06:37:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T06:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/prism\/"},"modified":"2011-08-18T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T17:21:32","slug":"prism","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/24811\/prism","title":{"rendered":"Prism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_prism_mean\">What Does Prism Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Mozilla Prism is an application platform allowing specific browser windows to run Web applications according to user requests.<\/p>\n<p> The site-specific browser (SSB) model is considered the origin of the prism application, where an SSB based browser can only present information from a certain website or domain. SSB based browsers have the advantage of being non-redundant. Every button and tool suits the specified website exclusively and perfectly. 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