Talk:Gears (software)
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i hope i wasn't out of line to link to gearswiki.theidea.net from this article.. Zvi 01:43, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Proprietary?
According to Google gears, it is "open source" (whatever that means). Kushal 06:50, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Google Gears Beta is an open source browser extension
- As noted in the article, it is under BSD, so both free and open source. Superm401 - Talk 09:11, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Security?
With Firefox on Mac OS, sqlite databases are stored in (source: api doc): Users/<username>/Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/{profile}.default/Google Gears for Firefox
Apparently, there's a full text search function, does that mean that data is stored in clear? ie: available without entering any password (eg: for rtm, google reader, google docs)?
Also on Mac OS, with Remember the milk and google gears, you can place a shortcut to rtm on the desktop, that will take to the online or offline mode, depending on your connexion. Trouble is, even if user has logged out, when clicking this shortcut, or later on, opening the url for the user's tasks in firefox, all tasks will be shown with only a small popup in front, asking for login (the tasks list can even be scrolled up or down).
--Norz (talk) 08:51, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
--83.145.249.35 (talk) 07:44, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Renaming
[1] Ought this now be named Gears (software)? --Emesee (talk) 01:15, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
