Google Gears for Flock

June 11th, 2008

Last week I suggested you give the new Flock 1.2 a try, and I don鈥檛 know if any of you would have鈥?but if you do use Flock then I鈥檝e found one extremely handy extension.

~~Google~~ Gears is one year old now, and although we haven鈥檛 seen a huge adoption across the web, it is extremely useful if you use any of the Google services likes Docs, Reader, Calendar and Gmail.

I鈥檓 finding myself using Docs increasingly over the last few weeks and I truly need access to my files offline, unfortunately Google Gears is officially only available for IE and Firefox. I presumed the Firefox extension would work for Flock as it鈥檚 built on the Firefox code base, but for some reason it doesn鈥檛.

Luckily a quick Google later and I found Martin over at capcloud discovered converting the Firefox Gears extensions into a Flock extension to be fairly simple:

Following the instructions that I found on the Google Gears Google Group, I repackaged Google Gears as a Flock extension. (The only other converted Gears extension that I found seems to be for OS X.)

You can install the extension by clicking here.

Once you have downloaded this simply use Flock to open the file and it should install just like a normal extension.

Martin only just updated this on April the 24th, so there should be no reason for it not to work.

Hope you find it useful!

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