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lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Google Gears" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gears" title="Gears – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Gears" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%AA%E0%B9%8C" title="เกียส์ – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="เกียส์" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Gears" title="Google Gears – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" 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<div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Google software to create web apps</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the Google software Gears. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Gear_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Gear (disambiguation)">Gear (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vevent"><caption class="infobox-title summary">Gears</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Gearslogo.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Gearslogo.png" decoding="async" width="153" height="43" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="153" data-file-height="43" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data">May 31, 2007<span class="noprint">; 17 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2007-05-31</span>)</span></td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Final release</a></th><td class="infobox-data">0.5.36.0 (February 22, 2010<span class="noprint">; 14 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2010-02-22</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-releasenotes_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-releasenotes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Latest_stable_software_release/Gears_(software)&action=edit">[±]</a></span></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Windows_XP" title="Windows XP">Windows XP</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_Vista" title="Windows Vista">Windows Vista</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_7" title="Windows 7">Windows 7</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_Mobile_5" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows Mobile 5">Windows Mobile 5</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_Mobile_6" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows Mobile 6">Windows Mobile 6</a>, <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a>, <a href="/wiki/BlackBerry_OS" title="BlackBerry OS">BlackBerry OS</a> 5</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/BSD_licenses" title="BSD licenses">BSD</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gears.google.com">gears<wbr />.google<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Gears</b>, formerly <b>Google Gears</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-birthday-rename_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-birthday-rename-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a discontinued <a href="/wiki/Utility_software" title="Utility software">utility software</a> offered by <a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> to create more powerful <a href="/wiki/Web_apps" class="mw-redirect" title="Web apps">web apps</a> by adding offline storage and other additional features to <a href="/wiki/Web_browser" title="Web browser">web browsers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Released under the <a href="/wiki/BSD_licenses" title="BSD licenses">BSD license</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gears is <a href="/wiki/Free_and_open-source" class="mw-redirect" title="Free and open-source">free and open-source</a>. Gears was conceived at a time when a comparable alternative was not available. However, Gears was discontinued in favor of the standardized <a href="/wiki/HTML5" title="HTML5">HTML5</a> methods that eventually became prevalent. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Components">Components</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gears_(software)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Components"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There were several major <a href="/wiki/Application_programming_interface" class="mw-redirect" title="Application programming interface">API</a> components to Gears: </p> <ul><li>A Database module (powered by <a href="/wiki/SQLite" title="SQLite">SQLite</a>), which could store data locally.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A WorkerPool module, which provided parallel execution of <a href="/wiki/JavaScript" title="JavaScript">JavaScript</a> code.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A LocalServer module, which cached and served application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A Desktop module, which let web applications interact more naturally with the desktop.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A Geolocation module, which let web applications detect the geographical location of their users.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Version_history">Version history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gears_(software)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Version history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Version</th> <th>Date</th> <th>Description </th></tr> <tr> <td>0.1 </td> <td>2007-05-31</td> <td>Initial release as Google Gears.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>0.2 </td> <td>2008-02-22<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>- </td> <td>2008-05-28<sup id="cite_ref-birthday-rename_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-birthday-rename-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>Project renamed to Gears to reflect the <a href="/wiki/Open-source_software" title="Open-source software">open source</a>, collaborative nature of the project. </td></tr> <tr> <td>0.3 </td> <td>2008-06-11<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>Introduced ability to add <a href="/wiki/Computer_icon" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer icon">desktop icons</a>, support for <a href="/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox_3" class="mw-redirect" title="Mozilla Firefox 3">Mozilla Firefox 3</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>0.4 </td> <td>2008-08-22<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Geolocation" class="mw-redirect" title="Geolocation">Geolocation</a> <a href="/wiki/Application_programming_interface" class="mw-redirect" title="Application programming interface">API</a> / Event handling for upload / download transfer progress, localization in 40 languages </td></tr> <tr> <td>0.5 </td> <td>2008-11-24<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>Updated <a href="/wiki/SQLite" title="SQLite">SQLite</a>, Geolocation can now get data from <a href="/wiki/WiFi" class="mw-redirect" title="WiFi">WiFi</a> antennas, Improved API to manage data blobs on LocalServer </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Support">Support</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gears_(software)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Support"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Several web applications from a variety of companies used Gears at some point, including Google (<a href="/wiki/Gmail" title="Gmail">Gmail</a>, <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a>, <a href="/wiki/Google_Docs" title="Google Docs">Docs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Google_Reader" title="Google Reader">Reader</a>, <a href="/wiki/Picasa" title="Picasa">Picasa</a> for mobile, <a href="/wiki/Google_Calendar" title="Google Calendar">Calendar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Google_Wave" title="Google Wave">Wave</a>), <a href="/wiki/MySpace" class="mw-redirect" title="MySpace">MySpace</a> (Mail Search), <a href="/wiki/Zoho_Office_Suite" title="Zoho Office Suite">Zoho Office Suite</a>, <a href="/wiki/Remember_The_Milk" class="mw-redirect" title="Remember The Milk">Remember The Milk</a>, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Buxfer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Buxfer (page does not exist)">Buxfer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/WordPress" title="WordPress">WordPress 2.6</a> added support for Gears, to speed up the administrative interface and reduce server hits.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, after Google announced in February 2010 that there would be no further development of Gears (see <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#End_of_life">End of life</a> section), several of these applications discontinued their support for Gears, including Google Reader<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and WordPress.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gears could be enabled on sites where it was otherwise unsupported, by using a <a href="/wiki/Greasemonkey" title="Greasemonkey">Greasemonkey</a> user script that one of the Gears engineers created.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gears was supported on <a href="/wiki/Internet_Explorer_6" title="Internet Explorer 6">Internet Explorer 6</a> and <a href="/wiki/Internet_Explorer_8" title="Internet Explorer 8">8</a> on <a href="/wiki/Windows_XP" title="Windows XP">Windows XP</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_Vista" title="Windows Vista">Vista</a> and <a href="/wiki/Windows_7" title="Windows 7">7</a>; <a href="/wiki/Internet_Explorer_Mobile" title="Internet Explorer Mobile">Internet Explorer Mobile</a> 4.01 and later on <a href="/wiki/Windows_Mobile" title="Windows Mobile">Windows Mobile</a>; <a href="/wiki/Safari_3" class="mw-redirect" title="Safari 3">Safari 3.1.1</a> and later on <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Tiger" title="Mac OS X Tiger">Mac OS X 10.4</a> and later<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (though not <a href="/wiki/Safari_4" class="mw-redirect" title="Safari 4">Safari 4</a> on <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard" title="Mac OS X Snow Leopard">Mac OS X 10.6</a><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>); <a href="/wiki/Firefox_1.5" class="mw-redirect" title="Firefox 1.5">Firefox 1.5</a> and later on multiple platforms; and the native browser on <a href="/wiki/BlackBerry_OS" title="BlackBerry OS">BlackBerry OS</a> 5.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There was only limited 64-bit support from third parties. </p><p>Gears did not support attachment files with sizes greater than 2 GB under <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Leopard" title="Mac OS X Leopard">Mac OS X Leopard</a> or <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard" title="Mac OS X Snow Leopard">Snow Leopard</a> due to a bug in the Blob handling code.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On May 29, 2008, <a href="/wiki/Opera_Software" class="mw-redirect" title="Opera Software">Opera Software ASA</a> announced that <a href="/wiki/Opera_Mobile" title="Opera Mobile">Opera Mobile</a> 9.5 would support Gears.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The technology preview release of the browser was published on February 20, 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was available for touchscreen devices running <a href="/wiki/Windows_Mobile_5.0" title="Windows Mobile 5.0">Windows Mobile 5</a> and <a href="/wiki/Windows_Mobile_6.0" title="Windows Mobile 6.0">6</a> only.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gears was not built into browsers other than <a href="/wiki/Google_Chrome" title="Google Chrome">Google Chrome</a> and had to be downloaded separately. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails" title="Ruby on Rails">Ruby on Rails</a> framework supported interfaces to Gears without needing to understand the Google Gears API.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="End_of_life">End of life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gears_(software)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: End of life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In late November 2009, numerous online news sources reported that Google was going to migrate to <a href="/wiki/Web_Storage" class="mw-redirect" title="Web Storage">Web Storage</a> rather than use Gears in the future. A Google spokesman later clarified that Google would, however, continue to support Gears so as not to break sites using it.<sup id="cite_ref-gears-html5_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gears-html5-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On February 19, 2010, the Gears team at Google announced that the development of Google Gears had stopped, as they are working on bringing all of the Gears capabilities into web standards like <a href="/wiki/HTML5" title="HTML5">HTML5</a>. Although development of new features had ceased, Google was planning to continue supporting Gears until they have developed a "simple, comprehensive" method for users' data to be migrated to HTML5 features.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 22 November 2011, Google announced that on 1 December 2011, Gears support would be removed from <a href="/wiki/Gmail" title="Gmail">Gmail</a> and <a href="/wiki/Google_Calendar" title="Google Calendar">Google Calendar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gears was removed from <a href="/wiki/Google_Chrome" title="Google Chrome">Google Chrome</a> on June 7, 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-gears_removed_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gears_removed-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gears_(software)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rich_Internet_application" class="mw-redirect" title="Rich Internet application">Rich Internet application</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adobe_Integrated_Runtime" class="mw-redirect" title="Adobe Integrated Runtime">Adobe AIR</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gears_(software)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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