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Posted on June 30th, 2009 by Barry Collins
Firefox 3.5 arrives – but without Google Gears
Firefox 3.5 – the browser that’s suffered more delays than an NHS IT project – has finally arrived. You can download a copy from the Get Firefox site.
As Matthew Sparkes noted in his preview of Firefox 3.5, not much has changed on the surface, with the exception of a rather clumsily implemented Private Browsing mode.
However, one issue I’ve noticed after installing the browser this afternoon is that my Google Gears Add-on has been disabled, because it isn’t compatible with this latest build. That’s a significant issue for anyone who uses Firefox to access services such as GMail and Google Reader offline.
Why hasn’t Google got its Gears Add-on ready for the launch of 3.5? Is this the first sign that cracks are beginning to appear in the once harmonious Google/Mozilla relationship, now that Google has its own browser to worry about?
Tags: Firefox 3.5, Google Gears, Mozilla
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June 30th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
FYI:
We’re working on pushing out a new Gears version that support FF 3.5.
We typically wait until the official “gold” release of Firefox is
pushed, because otherwise, we keep having to do new builds everytime a
new RC is pushed.
- a (Google)
June 30th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Please make it soon!! tia
June 30th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
To note:
Google had the same pattern when Firefox 3.0 was released. They generally release gears a few days/weeks after the official release.
Hardly what I would call the “… first sign that cracks are beginning to appear in the once harmonious Google/Mozilla relationship …”.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Seroiusly?
“The first cracks”
give me a break. Find some real journalism skills.
July 1st, 2009 at 6:21 am
This is clearly google gear’s developers lazyness: some other google plugins have already been released and are working perfectly fine with 3.5 (such as the google toolbar).
As for making a new build “anytime a new RC is released” I don’t see the issue – this is called software engineering. When Firefox represents such a strategical platform for Google, producing a handful of bulids over such a large timeline (the Firefox 3.5 RC release cycle was very large) was trivial.
In the grand scheme, this is not a big deal, but explaining the absence of this plugin by such theories is just BS.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:14 am
“Seroiusly?
“The first cracks”
give me a break. Find some real journalism skills”
Maybe you should find a spell checker before ranting at journalists.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:57 pm
@HenrikB Don’t you get the Gold code prior to release?
It’s an issue I have with Firefox as a whole. I’ve considered using it as my main browser now that I’ve found add-ins that provide the functionality of IE7 for IE, but 4 have been disabled having upgraded to 3.5. I’m seriously considering rolling back as it hurts my browsing experience too much, at least until compatibility issues have been sorted out.
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:33 pm
please update, i need for my wordpress blog