Google Gears Needs Some WD-40
17-Aug, 2009
I continue to loathe my love-hate relationship with Google. Recently, after several NeoOffice crashes and outbursts of colorful metaphors, I created a Google Docs SSB via Fluid in hopes to create a light-weight, word processing app. Well, my colorful metaphors were running out of colors — and I have the 64-box of Crayolas.
If there was ever a “cloud-based” app that needed offline access it’s Google Docs, IMO, with Gmail coming in a close second. In a nutshell is a nut. Seriously, in a nutshell, I tried enabling Google Gears in three different browsers — all of which gave me errors when trying to enable offline access in Google Docs. How many browsers was that? Three.
- Fluid 0.9.6 – An error occurred while updating software. Failed to update software for the applications: Docs Home page, Google Spreadsheets
- Firefox 3.5.2 – An error occurred while syncing documents. Failed to sync document metadata for the Docs Home page.
- Safari 3.2.1 – An error occurred while updating software. Failed to update software for the applications: Docs Home page, Google Spreadsheets
A Google Docs help search confirmed the issue, but the last time I checked, I had US English set as my default language. So…what now? Squeak, squeak.
I can confirm Google Gears does work for Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs with a work-around package built as a courtesy to Mailplane users and the Mac community. It’s a workaround until an official solution is made available. Click on the button that says, “I agree and start download.”
