523924 - Partner contact at Google for Google Gears

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Pretty sure we already have one, but should have a single point of contact for when we run into issues with our compatibility with the current version of Google Gears

Comment 1

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Note: the contact information itself should be added in a private comment, or the bug should be marked MoCo confidential to preserve the partner contact's privacy.

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Aaron Boodman (CCed) has been involved on several public bugs regarding Gears.

Comment 3

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

If someone is found, I'd like for them to make Gears compatible with Firefox 4 beta http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/search/?product=firefox&q=google+gears

Comment 4

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I'm pretty sure they're essentially end-of-lifing Gears:
http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/hello-html5.html

Comment 5

[Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek [:mgol]]

If I might add sth, it would be nice to maintain Gears compatibility with Firefox 4. Google's claims about changing focus to HTML5 are premature, as many services (IIRC, even Gmail!) now work only with Gears. Thus, Firefox 4 without Gears will be Firefox 4 without offline Gmail. Unless sth is going to change *really* soon.

(sorry for a little bit of advocacy, I'm shutting up now)

Comment 6

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Nobody here works on Gears. You want to be complaining to Google, not us.

Comment 7

[Kev Needham [:kev]]

I'll put in an inquiry with Google wrt support, but as Ted says, it's out of our hands.