Google Gears Extends Browser Functionality

November 24th, 2008 admin

Google Gears is a browser plugin that extends the functionality of your web browser, allowing for developers to create better performing web applications. Gears is an open source plugin that needs to be installed by the client if they choose to use it. Currently it is available for browsers on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. While they claim that for the Mac it is only available for Safari and Firefox browsers, I would bet that Chrome is either already supported or will be soon. Gears offers three modules, each of which adds a type of functionality to the browser that Gears in installed in that developers can take advantage of. The first, called LocalServer


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