Gears (software)
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Gears, formerly Google Gears,[2] is discontinued utility software offered by Google to create more powerful web apps by adding offline storage and other additional features to web browsers.[3] Released under the BSD license,[4] Gears is free and open-source. Gears was conceived at a time when a comparable alternative was not available. However, Gears was discontinued in favor of the standardized HTML5 methods that eventually became prevalent.
Google software to create web apps
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| Developer(s) | |
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| Initial release | May 31, 2007; 16 years ago (2007-05-31) |
| Final release | 0.5.36.0 (February 22, 2010; 13 years ago (2010-02-22)[1]) [±] |
| Operating system | Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 5, Windows Mobile 6, macOS, Linux, BlackBerry OS 5 |
| License | BSD |
| Website | gears |