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“Google Gears – Improving Your Web Browser”

Google Gears Does Work with Chrome? You don't say!

That is Google’s tagline for their open source project that stores data locally for web applications and runs Javascripts in the background. But as anyone who has used Gears will tell you, it’s buggy, especially when being used with Google applications.

For instance, Google Chrome comes pre-installed with Google Gears, however out of all the browsers that currently support Gears, it crashes the most. I’ve used Firefox and Internet Explorer with Gears and even though I still experience time-outs when downloading web app data and frequent Javascript slow downs, with Chrome I just get the “Aw, Snap! Something went wrong…” message practically every time I do anything Gears related.

(… and some things to know if this does happen to you)

Imagine you are a new hire for a company.  Your boss schedules your first work day-trip for an important meeting with a client – and even better – it is to New York City (oh…and you have never been there before!)  You are so excited and ready to show your boss why he/she hired you!

The night before your 7:00 a.m. flight, you create the meeting agenda for the next day.  You get your briefcase packed.  You iron and lay out your outfit.  You take your shower.  You set your cell phone alarm clock for 4:00 a.m.  You are set and ready to go, so you head to bed.