Michael, I updated and with Gears installed it didn't disable it / make it incompatible at all - I think the only problem lies in users who try and install gears AFTER updated to 3.51 since the gears file looks for the version number and sees it as past the compatible version which is 3.5. So far I have done three machines that all had FF 3.5 and Gears installed, clicked Help / Update in FF and went to 3.51 without issue.
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:24, Michael Tacelosky <[email protected]> wrote: > > This install procedure is fine (well, not really) for developers, but > how about the poor users that automatically upgrade to FF 3.5.1? > > Why can't Google test against Release Candidates? The message posted > here before was absurd, something along the lines of "We don't test > against release candidates because then if something changes, we'll > have to alter our code, so we wait until it's released." (I'm > paraphrasing, but that was the gist, I think). > > I'm a huge fan of Gears, I think it's one of the most underpromoted > tools of the Internet, and with the ability to run full web > applications offline, it's ideal for smart phone apps. I have it > enabled for my Google tools, Wordpress Admin, and one of our websites. > > But a couple of things are shaking my faith in Gears. > > The blog hasn't been updated in a long time (the last entry reads > "Gears 0.5.21.0 Released, May 28, 2009 Posted by Ian Fette, Gears Team > In conjunction with Google I/O we're releasing a new version of Gears, > 0.5.21.0....) > > The featured Articles on the developers page shows articles from 2007. > Some of those articles reference tools and sites that no longer > exist. > > And of course ignoring a major Firefox release. Well, not ignoring > it, just not making it a priority, and ignoring the developer > community by not saying anything. How about a message on the blog > saying "We're working on it"? That would go a long way toward > restoring my confidence that I'm not betting on a dying technology. > > I can't believe technology this amazing looks like it's withering on the > vine. >
