Comments on: Firefox 3.5 arrives – but without Google Gears

By: fabrixx

fabrixx — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:33:53 +0000

please update, i need for my wordpress blog

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:57:19 +0000

@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.

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:14:22 +0000

“Seroiusly?
“The first cracks”
give me a break. Find some real journalism skills”

Maybe you should find a spell checker before ranting at journalists.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:21:36 +0000

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.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:39:06 +0000

Seroiusly?

“The first cracks”

give me a break. Find some real journalism skills.

By: Dpalay

Dpalay — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:11:12 +0000

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 …”.

By: PetieG

PetieG — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:20:54 +0000

Please make it soon!! tia

By: HenrikB

HenrikB — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:42:12 +0000

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)