Support
Several web applications from a variety of companies have used Gears at some point, including Google (Gmail, YouTube, Docs, Reader, Picasa for mobile, Calendar, Wave), MySpace (Mail Search), Zoho (Writer, Mail), Remember The Milk, and Buxfer. WordPress 2.6 added support for Gears, to speed up the administrative interface and reduce server hits. However, after Google announced in February 2010 that there would be no further development of Gears (see End of life section), several of these applications have discontinued their support for Gears, including Google Reader and WordPress
Gears can be enabled on sites where it is otherwise unsupported, by using a Greasemonkey user script one of the Gears engineers has created.
Gears is supported on Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP, Vista and Seven, Internet Explorer Mobile 4.01 and later on Windows Mobile, Safari 3.1.1 and later on Mac OS X 10.4 and later (though not with Safari 4 on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard; with no sign of a fix anytime soon), and Firefox 1.5 and later on multiple platforms. There is only limited 64 bit support from third parties.
Gears does not support attachment files with sizes greater than 2 GB under Mac OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard currently due to a bug in the Blob handling code.
On May 29, 2008, Opera Software ASA announced that Opera Mobile 9.5 would support Gears. The technology preview release of the browser was published on February 20, 2009. It is currently available for touch-screen devices on Windows Mobile 5 & 6 only. Gears is not built into browsers other than Google Chrome and must be downloaded separately.
The Ruby on Rails framework supports interfaces to Gears without needing to understand the Google Gears API.
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