Using Gmail Offline with Google Gears

April 15th, 2009 by Shawn Powers in

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eberlh's picture

gears for google docs on linux?

On July 18th, 2009 eberlh (not verified) says:

This is great. Is there a way to get gears for google docs?

Antoine van Dinter's picture

no google gears shortcut

On April 28th, 2009 Antoine van Dinter (not verified) says:

Hi Shawn,

I love your videoĊ› and they have helped me a lot. I like Google Gears, but what happens on your Ubuntu desktop, doens't happen on mine: I get no shortcut. Please help me, because this way I can not access Gmail offline mode. Keep on the good work.

Viktor's picture

Not compatible with 64bit :(

On April 16th, 2009 Viktor (not verified) says:

Yes, this video is great, and I immediately rushed on gears.google.com (was waiting for this happen).
Downloaded Gears and got: "...could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Firefox build type (Linux_X86_64-gcc3)"

FergatROn's picture

This is awesome! I've been

On April 15th, 2009 FergatROn (not verified) says:

This is awesome! I've been waiting for Google Gears to support Gmail. Thanks for doing a video on it, it's always helpful to see it in action.

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