Firefox 4 Support

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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?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by paul.x.simpson on 28 Jul 2010 at 5:13

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

Original comment by [email protected] on 14 Aug 2010 at 3:54

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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!

Original comment by [email protected] on 20 Aug 2010 at 6:41

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

Original comment by [email protected] on 24 Aug 2010 at 8:53

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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

Original comment by [email protected] on 16 Sep 2010 at 9:48

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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?

Original comment by [email protected] on 18 Sep 2010 at 7:42

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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.

Original comment by v5point0 on 1 Oct 2010 at 3:59

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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

Original comment by lasiewski on 5 Oct 2010 at 10:06

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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

Original comment by [email protected] on 5 Mar 2011 at 5:44

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

Original comment by [email protected] on 8 Mar 2011 at 9:50

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READ comment #7...

Original comment by Mieszkoslusarczyk on 8 Mar 2011 at 9:59

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@Mieszkoslusarczyk

READ comment #7 yourself

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

Original comment by [email protected] on 8 Mar 2011 at 10:16

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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.

Original comment by [email protected] on 30 Mar 2011 at 11:46

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

Original comment by [email protected] on 30 Mar 2011 at 9:52