PC Pro blog » Google Gears http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs Blogging in the real world Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:54:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Firefox 3.5 arrives – but without Google Gears http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/06/30/firefox-35-arrives-but-without-google-gears/ http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/06/30/firefox-35-arrives-but-without-google-gears/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:00:59 +0000 Barry Collins http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=6082 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.

Google Gears in Firefox 3.5

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?

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