Comments on: Linux Google Gears – No effect?

By: grandnooblar

grandnooblar — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:42:52 +0000

Google Gears 0.5.21.0 doesn’t seem to be working for me using LinuxMint 6 – It hasn’t requested permission to use gears on any websites…

I was hoping it would help a bit for my mother who’s stuck on 20kbps dialup, but it’s probably rather redundant since this machine has a localhost caching DNS and caching proxy.

Guess I’ll be removing google gears :(

By: deepthi

deepthi — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:58:19 +0000

i think there might be no effect on it ……

By: Jad

Jad — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:15:52 +0000

Ketil
I believe Mozilla needs to re-architect Firefox, actually you could have full desktop up and running with all useful tools that you would ever need just with Firefox and its extensions but things gets slower the more extensions you load.

Jeremy Bicha
Although I limited my http to 15k but I didn’t feel any different with WordPress & Gears, maybe I’m missing something here or it’s yet not that super hero caching solution.

By: Jeremy Bicha

Jeremy Bicha — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:46:08 +0000

I don’t believe Google Readers uses Gears for speeding up the site, just for offline access (downloading 1000 items to read). WordPress does use Gears to cache some images & scripts but if your connection is fast enough, you may not be able to see much of a difference.

By: Ketil

Ketil — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:21:02 +0000

Here’s a more updated xpi, from the same thread: http://groups.google.com/group/gears-users/msg/caca20ce5633a3af?
If you have Greasemonkey offline wikipedia script installed, this version will segfault Firefox on *every* render of wikipedia pages.
There’s a more recent version killing this bug, but noone has posted a 64 bit xpi for it yet.