Google Gears on WordPress

10Jul09

Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. Gears provides three key features:

• A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server
• A database, to store and access data from within the browser
• A worker thread pool, to make web applications more responsive by performing expensive operations in the background

Gears is currently an early-access developers’ release. It is not yet intended for use by real users in production applications at this time. Who use google Gears? The list is here. [Gears FAQ]

But it just a time when Firefox 3.5 came cross. Don’t want wait that long until Google release the update, It’s a week later, and still no update from the folks at Google, but a few adventurous users have hacked together their own Firefox 3.5 compatible builds of Gears. We wouldn’t recommend that just anyone go download and install these Gears builds willy-nilly, but if you’re desperate to get Gears back up and running and you don’t mind a little risk (namely of your browser’s stability), it’s worth a go. [Lifehacker]

How Gears powering up your wordpress?
First of first you should use Firefox, then install the Google Gears Addon then activate gears from your wordpress setting (Tools >> Gears). Simple and powerful.

Download Google Gears for Firefox here (win | lin) or here (mac).

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