I apologize if this has already been discussed before, but I think it
would be really cool if Gears eventually had a simplistic add-on/
extensions system.  Maybe something as simple as a JavaScript based
scripting mechanism by which you could hook into certain events,
etc...

Although this might sound weird to have an add-on system for something
which is already a browser add-on itself, here's my thinking on this:

If Gears had its own add-on system that was powerful enough... rather
than developers having to make extensions for Firefox and add-ons for
IE and concern themselves with the OS the browser may be running on...
and rather than Chrome needing to implement yet another add-on
mechanism for developers to focus on... since Gears is already
available for a bunch of browsers on a bunch of OSes... creating an
add-on system for Gears would instantly give developers a way to
create browser add-ons for different browsers and different operating
systems simultaneously with one API.

Thoughts?

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