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Gears for Safari Now Available

Written on September 15, 2008 by Josh Pigford and 2 people have commented

Gears, Google’s “browser improver” (for lack of a better term), has come out of beta and is now officially available for Safari.
Gears is a browser plugin that extends its functionality by allowing it do things like store data locally in a searchable database as well as run JavaScript in the background to improve performance. A [...]

Google Gears (Beta) [Finally] Comes To Safari

Written on August 26, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 10 people have commented

Spotlight importers aren’t the only symbols of Mac-generosity coming from the fine folks over at Google. The Google Gears project has released a beta of their browser code which enables developers to make web apps that behave more like local desktop apps and allow some – or complete – functionality even when you are not connected [...]