Gears, Google’s “browser improver” (for lack of a better term), has come out of beta and is now officially available for Safari.
Gears is a browser plugin that extends its functionality by allowing it do things like store data locally in a searchable database as well as run JavaScript in the background to improve performance. A common example of its use is to allow web applications to be accessed offline.
Gears requires an applications developer to implement the functionality in to their site, so there aren’t a huge number of sites that make use of Gears.
A few that currently do:
If you’re a developer, you can checkout the Gears API and get started on implementing it in to your site.
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