WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Google Gears http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Google Gears en Fri, 24 May 2013 17:06:03 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 shoreacres on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-222789 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:49:11 +0000 shoreacres 222789@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Is Gears functionally like the prefetch files cached within Windows?

]]> raincoaster on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-222777 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:06:40 +0000 raincoaster 222777@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, it is; it's installed on one particular browser on one particular computer.

]]> dlager on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-222768 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:35:35 +0000 dlager 222768@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ works well with firefox.
Doesn't work well if you access a browser (like Avant) from a remote location from your computer. I assume because the google gears cache is at one computer.

]]> justjennifer on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-221461 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:42:45 +0000 justjennifer 221461@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Cool beans! Thanks for the option of using Google Gears! Hope the next Google Gears feature is an offline wp.com editor sync. :)

]]> teck07 on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-221457 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:28:40 +0000 teck07 221457@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ WOW that's quick thanks Mark, & staff, for adding this great feature... :)

]]> mark on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-221452 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:06:30 +0000 mark 221452@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No - Gears stores it's files somewhere out of the browser cache. So after clearing the cache you can be sure that Gears does have the files, your browser does not and you will see a speed increase because of Gears having them.

]]> justjennifer on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-221451 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:01:31 +0000 justjennifer 221451@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ So effectively since I clear my browser cache each time I close FF, I would need to hit the turbo link each time I log in to each of my Dashboards (3 blogs)?

]]> mark on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-221446 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:33:32 +0000 mark 221446@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It makes everything faster.

Install Gears and it downloads 197 files from your blog. So when you go to the Write page instead of your browser waiting for all the files there to download (which could take some time if you have a slow connection) it knows they are already cached on your machine so it grabs them from there. It makes using your blog much faster.

Want to test?
Log out of your blog. Clear your browser cache. Login and go to your Write page.
When it has fully loaded, click the Turbo button and install Gears
Log out of your blog. Clear your browser cache. Login and go to your Write page.
You will see the difference.

And as foolswisdom says your privacy is not compromised in any way.

]]> justjennifer on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-221445 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:26:38 +0000 justjennifer 221445@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Dear staff, yes, please do tell us more! What functionality is added with GG?

]]> teck07 on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-221432 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:00:51 +0000 teck07 221432@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ So it basically stores the information on the
hard drive to make the admin panel more faster??

]]> lloydbudd on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-221431 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:54:56 +0000 lloydbudd 221431@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ dlager, it doesn't talk back to Google. It's a browser addon that does all its work local to your PC.

muzzak, it is a different type of cache. It is a smart cache and data store.

]]> muzzak on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-220129 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:12:18 +0000 muzzak 220129@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Mark, specifically what difference; just speed? I've got it on my MBP 2.4 with Firefox 2.0 and all it does is load files into a cache, which seems not to do anything more than a browser does alread.

]]> dlager on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-220124 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:51:52 +0000 dlager 220124@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ *stats on me...(you think i'd learn to proof read by now.)

]]> dlager on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-220123 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:51:09 +0000 dlager 220123@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Before i download gears,
Does google keep stats with on with this thing?
or keep a program running in RAM when i'm not using it?

]]> mark on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-220102 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:55:22 +0000 mark 220102@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ http://skitch.com/markr/qkjk/from-within-the-box-flew-wpmu-admin-wordpress

]]> mark on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-220099 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:52:31 +0000 mark 220099@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ All the way right in the admin bar - but only if your browser is supported.
(It's Google who decide what is/is not supported, not us)

]]> teck07 on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-220096 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:46:07 +0000 teck07 220096@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Google gears??? also My dashboard says how may comments I approve and how many I have
did we have another dashboard upgrade..........

]]> vivianpaige on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-220085 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:22:14 +0000 vivianpaige 220085@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ nevermind. I figured it out. Adblock Plus wasn't allowing it.

]]> vivianpaige on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-220084 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:20:24 +0000 vivianpaige 220084@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hmm - when I click on "speed up" it just takes me back to my dashboard. What am I missing? (Using Firefox 2.0.0.14 btw)

]]> andrew on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-220059 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:21:19 +0000 andrew 220059@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Gears is a Google product, not some cracker pretending to be Google. I have no particular security qualms about it. (That's not to claim that it is perfectly secure software.)

]]> masterclasslady on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-220051 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:06:59 +0000 masterclasslady 220051@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ So, it is a perfectly safe and secure program to run? I was hesitant to say "yes" at first, which is why I came here.

]]> mark on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-220017 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:04:41 +0000 mark 220017@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It is entirely an option and will only appear for supported browsers.

Activating it will first ask for the Gears extension to be installed.
When you then go to your blog admin you can speed up that admin - it takes a minute or so to download the files. It's a per-blog thing right now (a Gears limitation as I understand).

It makes a noticeable difference to me.

]]> raincoaster on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-220011 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:00:54 +0000 raincoaster 220011@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Which I really hope isn't mandatory, because I'm running Windows 98 which will not work with Google Gears and I would have to take all my blogs to independent hosting if GG became mandatory.

]]> raincoaster on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-220010 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:00:00 +0000 raincoaster 220010@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Google Gears is already here. Look on your Dashboard, at the far right top corner where it says Speed Up. Click on that and see where it takes you.

]]> andrew on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-220004 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:45:55 +0000 andrew 220004@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Google Gears has been spotted in WordPress 2.6, the next release of self-hosted WordPress. See:
http://www.geniosity.co.za/musings/wordpress/wordpress-26-and-google-gears/
So it is likely that at some point we will see Gears in WordPress.com.
In what may be related news, my WordPress.com blog behaved in a Gears-like manner this morning. That is, I had no internet access, but my blog behaved as though I had.

]]> raincoaster on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-219996 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:29:38 +0000 raincoaster 219996@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I tried to install Google Gears some time ago, but it won't run on my system (too old) so I can't help you.

]]> masterclasslady on "Google Gears" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-gears#post-219995 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:28:38 +0000 masterclasslady 219995@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Has anyone here accessed Google Gears for use on WordPress? I did install it, but have yet to confirm the use of this program on WordPress. Any information you can give me would be deeply appreciated.

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