Comment #27 on issue 847 by awillmott: [Mac] [Safari 4] [Snow Leopard]
Gears not working Safari 4 - Snow Leopard
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=847
No, this is a Google problem. You're not going to get anything out of
Apple. There are two issues: their plugin is
not compatible with 64-bit safari yet (an issue shared with some other
plugins out there), and their installer
performs a version check disallowing installs on 10.6 regardless.
This was an OS change well signalled and available for testing over an
unusually long beta period. It was as you
say even reported by someone in that beta six months before release. (I
guess Google engineers did not
participate, and likely still aren't dogfooding their stuff on SL.)
That they still haven't released an official installer that works under
10.6, so you can at least run Safari in 32-bit
mode (never mind install for Chrome) shows you this is not a current
priority. (Apparently commenting on how
little work this was for a third party is, though!)
To me at this point it is unwise to rely on gmail for offline mail, or on
any of Google's Mac-related tools. (I got
caught out by all of this while travelling for business, not fun.) It's
clearly not a focus, and perhaps fair enough,
though with their engineer count I would have naively expected better.
By the way, some of the confusion on this thread is because if you stick
completely to Firefox under a from-
scratch install of 10.6, you *can* install gears (for FF only), because it
goes through the internal firefox add-on
path. You can't install it using the downloadable installer however. Unless
you use the mailplane rebuilt-without-
version-check one above.
--
You received this message because you are listed in the owner
or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue.
You may adjust your issue notification preferences at:
http://code.google.com/hosting/settings
