Gears is not supported on Linux, at all, as far as I understand. There is no intention to support it on Linux in the future (HTML5 will come instead, as dhw says). Farthermore, the development of Gears was recently discontinued (or so I have read), in favor of HTML5 (or Chrome Frame, I guess).
☆PhistucK On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 04:46, mhenriday <[email protected]> wrote: > PhistucK, I most certainly use Gmail, and when running FF versions, I > can enable the «Offline» option on my 64-bit Karmic setup, but when I > attempt to do so on Chromium (currently v 4.0.272.0 (Ubuntu build > 34555)), a message to the effect that email offline is not supported > by my browser is displayed. This, despite the fact that when I click > the «Read more» button, I am linked to a page on which I find the > following (my translation from the Swedish) : «Gmail works Offline in > all browsers that are supported by Gears (Firefox 1.5+, Internet > Explorer 6.0+ and Chrome)». What's going on ?... > > Henri > > On Dec 14, 6:53 am, PhistucK <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well ;) if you use GMail (and looks like you do) with Google Chrome on > > Windows, there is an "Offline" feature (Settings-->Offline). Pin your > GMail > > tab (right click on the tab-->Pin tab), enable offline access and enjoy > your > > built in E-Mail application. > > > > ☆PhistucK > > > > On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 00:51, Nate <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Browser + Email > > > > > This has something that many people I know have been waiting for, and > > > it still isn't here yet. > > > > > The idea: Combine a web browser and an email client into one > > > application. > > > > > Native email clients tend to work better for many people as opposed to > > > internet based inboxes because they can be accessed offline. But > > > since the internet and email are often used in tandem, why not combine > > > these to functions into one application? The simple push of a button > > > could bring up the email client, perhaps in a new tab. Unlike an > > > internet inbox, the information (address books, emails, etc.) would be > > > stored natively on the user's computer. However, emails and RSS feeds > > > would all be accessed in the same window as the links they bring up. > > > Someone sends you a link to an article... you click on it and it opens > > > a new tab instead of starting a new application. You can easily go > > > right back to your inbox/mail client by clicking on it's tab. As a > > > reference, check out Safari's bookmarks tab. This is built similarly > > > to it's email client, and can be used as an RSS reader. If this were > > > taken just a step further, users could have a full-fledged browser/ > > > email client suite all in one application. I have taken this > > > suggestion to Apple... but they haven't bitten yet. Head start, > > > anybody? > > > > > I hope you are interested. Thank you. > > > > > Sincerely, > > > Nate > > > > > -- > > > Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] > > > View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: > > > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss > > -- > Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] > View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss > -- Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss
