Firefox 3.6 compatibility?

[Alexander Limi]

Any news on Firefox 3.6 compatibility now that the beta is out?

Happy to help test an experimental release.

[josefec]

That’s true. It’s very problematic that Gears is not supported in new
versions of Firefox. In case of 3.5 it wasn’t available even when the
final version was out. Maybe this is to drag user to Google Chrome.
For me it’s one of a few hurdles to update to Firefox 3.6.

[Sharon Fisher]

I can't get it to work with Chrome either. It keeps telling me my
Google Mail page doesn't have permission even though it's set
correctly.

[Steve DC]

It does seem interesting that most major browsers (including IE)
support HTML5 offline storage but not yet Chrome. I guess that's part
of their reasoning for delaying the support of HTML5 instead of gears
for their applications:

"Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, IE8: HTML5 localStorage; these modern browsers
all support the core localStorage functionality defined in the HTML5
draft."

Come on Google. Add HTML5 support to Chrome, then to your apps, and
dump Gears

[gear-newbie]

I doubt that Gears is completely obsolete now: IE8 doesn't support web
workers, and Blobs/byteArrays/partitioned file uploads still have to
make their way into "browser javascript".

But I do see that the enhancement features offered by Gears are
getting more and more obsolete with every new browser version. This
and other recent developments (namely Chrome OS) might turn Gears into
a second-class citizen of Google's product family.