Comments on: Gmail as a stand-alone offline application using Gears and Prism

By: Helvetwitter to accompany Helvetireader and Helvetical | Josef Richter

Helvetwitter to accompany Helvetireader and Helvetical | Josef Richter — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:38:30 +0000

[...] This blogpost is mainly a support for Helvetwitter. If you are having some problems making it work, please check also my older blog posts here and here. [...]

By: Eamon

Eamon — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:06:27 +0000

Following up on myself, looks like I’m not the only one seeing this: http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=704#c8

Thanks again for writing the great tutorial!

By: Eamon

Eamon — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:26:47 +0000

Thanks for asking! Gears shows up as installed. Not sure why gmail’s check is failing.

I’ll definitely check out prism once I’ve upgraded from 10.4.

By: Josef Richter

Josef Richter — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:53:48 +0000

@Eamon Did the drag and drop install of the XPI file finish successfully? If yes, the app should be aware (upon restart) of Gears being present. If you are on Mac, I recommend using Fluid instead of Mozilla Prism – see http://www.josefrichter.com/blog/offline-gmail-google-docs-helvetireader-etc-using-fluid/

By: Josef Richter

Josef Richter — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:48:53 +0000

@Long I was able to find xpi for windows somewhere on google. But I cannot find it again

By: Eamon

Eamon — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:32:05 +0000

I’m able to hack and install the gears extension, but when I try to enable offline access in the Gmail app, it prompts me to install gears. Unfortunately, it takes me to the gears install page, and the unhacked xpi fails to install. I’m not sure why it’s not recognizing that gears is already available.

By: Long

Long — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:45:37 +0000

@Josef Richter – That’s not an option – AFAIK, gears.google.com only lets you download an EXE on windows.

By: Josef Richter

Josef Richter — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:23:05 +0000

@Josh, just open Opera/Safari, go to gears.google.com and download Gears for Firefox. You need to do it in Opera/Safari to prevent automatick installation in FF.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:54:05 +0000

Thanks for the guide! Love the interwebs. Did not see a Win version of the xpi at the link you provided, however. Any ideas? Thanks.

By: Offline Gmail, Google Docs, Helvetireader, etc. using Fluid | Josef Richter

Offline Gmail, Google Docs, Helvetireader, etc. using Fluid | Josef Richter — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:47:34 +0000

[...] a previous post, I was explaining how to enable Google Gears within Mozilla Prism to turn Gmail, Google Docs and [...]