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Google Gears beta for Safari
With Google Gears, for example, you can view all of your Google Docs offline -- and even edit them (word processing docs only, spreadsheets and presentations are viewable but not editable). When you connect back to the internet, you will be able to sync the changes back to Google.
We're glad that Google has finally seen the light and released a version for our Safari-using counterparts. To make Google Gears work with Safari, you will need to download and install the Google Gears package for Mac OS X. Once installed, navigate to a "gears enabled" page, you will be able to use the Google Gears system. Remember, this is a beta and we've heard there might be issues if you've tweaked Safari in certain ways.
Oh, and there appears to be limited support for Fluid, which is nice.
[via the Apple blog]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Rick said 12:45PM on 8-28-2008
What do I do once I've downloaded that xpi file?
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kiko said 1:01PM on 8-28-2008
You actually have to download it from http://dl.google.com/gears/current/gears-osx-opt.dmg
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monkey_mad2 said 1:02PM on 8-28-2008
Nice, telling us about it but not giving a working link.
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Matt said 1:04PM on 8-28-2008
Download the Safari plugin from http://dl.google.com/gears/current/gears-osx-opt.dmg
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Ed said 1:28PM on 8-28-2008
Boo! Doesn't work with Google Apps Documents, just regular Google Docs.
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winkyeah said 1:31PM on 8-28-2008
I wonder if this means they'll be getting it working for Safari on the iPhone. That would be awesome, to have local storage of my Remember the Milk tasks, and Google Docs on the iPhone.
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Federico Antin said 2:57PM on 8-28-2008
This is all I can see:
Unable to load plug-in
The page "Gears" attempted to load an internet plug-in named "Gears 0.4.16.0", but the plug-in failed to load succesfully
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Dion Almaer said 4:24PM on 8-28-2008
Thanks for talking about this. I am really excited to see Gears work in Safari.
The original announcement is at: http://groups.google.com/group/gears-users/browse_thread/thread/36537d4f47c5495c
If you have any issues, it would be great if you wouldn't mind posting them there so our engineers see them.... and can thus look at fixing them!
One other minor thing.... it's "Gears" not "Google Gears" now!
Cheers,
Dion
Google, and Gears member
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Peter Payne said 2:59AM on 8-29-2008
Wow, it works great. Oops, I mean it doesn't work at all. Even if it did, caching Google Reader without caching ANY images if a great big FAIL. Google, please rework this to support images.
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Level 5 said 9:28AM on 8-29-2008
Good times, but I'd still say Safari doesn't quite hack it against FF3. We'll see how Safari 4 turns out.
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willie said 1:34PM on 8-29-2008
You should probably tell users that they need to install WebKit from nightly.webkit.org to use Gears.
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Daniel McCullum said 6:50PM on 8-30-2008
Nice! Now if only we can have offline Gmail, and compatibility with Fluid.app...
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