On Jun 17, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Jeff Weinberger wrote:
> After this exchange, I had a friend come over with his mac and compared
> preferences and settings for Safari 5 one by one, and I found the problem -
> Google Gears.
>
> I didn't realize I had it installed, but "Google Gears Preferences..." showed
> up in the "Safari" menu on mine and not his.
>
> I uninstalled gears, relaunched Safari, and all is well.
>
> Looks like Google hasn't quite got Gears ready for Safari 5....
Google Gears was essentially a plugin to provide many of the same
features that have made their way into the HTML 5 spec (this is an
over-gernalization, there are lots of detail differences). So much so that the
'Gears group is phasing out in place of HTML5:
http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/hello-html5.html
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Karl Kuehn
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