May 31, 2007

Google Gears, Firefox Fears

islamcrunch user Mikael Pittam islamcrunch comment View Comments islamcrunch category Technology

I just downloaded and installed , the new ”open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality. Google Gears allows developers to enhance their AJAX applications to be able to run even when their users are offline.”

After restarting the Firefox browser, it quickly became apparent that Google Gears is true to it’s BETA status. To see all the scary details, click here to see my post on the .

Anybody else encountering any problems? Drop your comments here and let us know your experience with this new technology.

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  1. Hambaba Says: June 5th, 2007 at 2:10 am

    When I try to install the software, only error I got was it was not able to connect to the server which was quickly resolved.

    After playing with for awhile I believe it is beta in the sense that there is not enough online applications that use the Google Gears feature, as of now Google docs is not available for Google Gears. So I can not really have fun with this yet.

    Confused?
    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/technology/31google.html

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