Issue 1023 in gears: Firefox 4 Support

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Status: New
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Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium

New issue 1023 by paul.x.simpson: Firefox 4 Support
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=1023

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Download and install Google Gears for Windows XP using Firefox 4 Beta 2.
2. Check Firefox Add-Ons manager.
3. Try to use a site (such as Offline Gmail) with Google Gears features.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Add-On manager lists Gears as "not compatible." Gmail redirects users to
Gears download page as if it doesn't realize Gears is already installed.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Firefox 4 Beta 2 on Windows XP 32-bit.

Please provide any additional information below.
I realize HTML5 is Google's direction but as Google has not yet implemented
HTML5 features such as offline Gmail I am hoping that Gears will get one
more update for Firefox 4?

[ge...@googlecode.com]

Comment #1 on issue 1023 by thanhbv: Firefox 4 Support
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=1023

FF4b3/Win7-32bit:
I install gears & "Add-on Compatibility Reporter" but still can't use
offline Gmail!

[ge...@googlecode.com]

Comment #2 on issue 1023 by dedavidedie: Firefox 4 Support
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=1023

I also hope that you'll be able to release a version of gears which will be
compatible with Firefox 4. We thought about moving our gears application to
a new HTML 5 implementation, but felt that it was still too early in the
game, especially concerning the uncertainty over which direction that local
storage was taking: whether IndexedDB or WebSQLDatabase...

Would you be able to let us know whether you are intending on releasing a
version which will work in Firefox 4?

Thanks.

[ge...@googlecode.com]

Comment #3 on issue 1023 by hsmitheasy: Firefox 4 Support
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=1023

Could you let us know whether you'll release a new version which will work
in Firefox 4 ...would be great if you would release one, will save a lot of
trouble migrating our application to html 5...! Thank you!

[ge...@googlecode.com]

Comment #4 on issue 1023 by auriam: Firefox 4 Support
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=1023

Same here; I'm using FF 4.0b3 and Windows XP Sp3; Offline Gmail just asks
me to install Gears over and over again.

[ge...@googlecode.com]

Comment #5 on issue 1023 by peeters.simon: Firefox 4 Support
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=1023

it isn't just on windows there is a problem, under linux gears isn't
compatible with anny of the up to date browsers (no ff4 support, no chrome
support,...).

ther are two ways to solve this:
- Make more and faster gears releases compatible with different platforms
(maybe also chrome on linux)
- Phase-out gears in favor of HTML5 and make all google "offline" products
HTML5 capable

i personally prefer the second one, but the first one would be great to

[ge...@googlecode.com]

Comment #6 on issue 1023 by nin...@live.co.uk: Firefox 4 Support
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=1023

Currently on FF 4.0b6.
Aww, I was hoping Gears would work on it. Turns out it won't.
Any idea of when a release will come? For the Firefox 4 betas?

[ge...@googlecode.com]

Comment #7 on issue 1023 by v5point0: Firefox 4 Support
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=1023

Google has ceased development on Gears in favor for HTML5
http://bit.ly/duEb18

It unlikely that the current release of Gears v0.5.36.0 will be updated to
support Firefox 4.

[ge...@googlecode.com]

Comment #8 on issue 1023 by lasiewski: Firefox 4 Support
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=1023

The blog entry mentioned by @v5point0 is 8 months old. The Google Apps
still do not support HTML5 Web Storage[1], and there has been very little
communication from Google regarding their plans for offline applications.

Since Google Gears has been abandoned, and Web Storage for Google Apps is
not available for Firefox 4 (and other browsers?), this means that offline
mode for Google Mail, Google Calendar and Google Docs is currently dead.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Storage

[ge...@googlecode.com]

Comment #9 on issue 1023 by wasifkab...@gmail.com: Firefox 4 Support
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=1023

I'm using Firefox v4.0b12 and recently installed Google Gears v0.5.36.0 but
an error message appears showing incompatibility of Gears version with
Firefox

[ge...@googlecode.com]

Comment #10 on issue 1023 by lbatt...@gmail.com: Firefox 4 Support
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=1023

Confirmed with Ubuntu Natty-beta, FF 4.0b12 and Google Gears v0.5.36.0.

[ge...@googlecode.com]

Comment #11 on issue 1023 by Mieszkoslusarczyk: Firefox 4 Support
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=1023

READ comment #7...

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Comment #12 on issue 1023 by peeters....@gmail.com: Firefox 4 Support
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=1023

@Mieszkoslusarczyk

READ comment #7 yourself

"Support for Gears in Firefox and Internet Explorer will continue."

[Adjamir Galvão]

Read better the blog http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/

"With all this now available in HTML5, it’s finally time to say
goodbye to Gears. There will be no new Gears releases, and newer
browsers such as Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9 will not be
supported. We will also be removing Gears from Chrome in Chrome 12.

The code itself will of course remain open source, and anyone is free
to use it."


On 8 Mar, 19:16, ge...@googlecode.com wrote:
> Comment #12 on issue 1023 by peeters....@gmail.com: Firefox 4 Supporthttp://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=1023

[Saganaki]

Any word from Google about support for HTML5 Web Storage to replace
Gears? Now using FF4.x and as reported by other users offline Calendar
and Gmail no longer work.

On Mar 15, 11:24 am, Adjamir Galvão <adja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Read better the bloghttp://gearsblog.blogspot.com/

[ge...@googlecode.com]

Comment #13 on issue 1023 by riciajo...@gmail.com: Firefox 4 Support
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=1023

9 months on from first comment, do I or do I not change mail etc over to
google. Gears is critical where internet connections are always being
interrupted even in cities like Melbourne. Latest version of Explorer also
incompatible with Gears.

[ge...@googlecode.com]

Comment #14 on issue 1023 by xsa...@gmail.com: Firefox 4 Support
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=1023

as explained here: http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/stopping-gears.html
support of new browsers will never occurs directly from Google