Bug 310199

Summary:	Google gears doesn't seem to be included in www-client/chromium-5.0.307.11
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Patrick ALLAERT <patrickallaert>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) <phajdan.jr>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	voyageur
Priority:	High
Version:	10.0
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=17443
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Description Patrick ALLAERT 2010-03-19 11:56:01 UTC

Google gears aware web applications's doesn't seem to detect it. They redirect to Gear's installation page which says the browser is not supported!?
This happens for example from Google Documents clicking on the "Offline" button.

Comment 1 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-21 18:20:51 UTC

Please take a look at the upstream bug:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=17443

The short story is that HTML 5 will make Gears obsolete.