Works for me on Linux. <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Grant Bowman <<a href="mailto:grantbow@gmail.com">grantbow@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I tried gears with gmail on my home Windows XP machine but it just freezes firefox so I have to force quit. -- -- Grant Bowman                                   <<a href="mailto:grantbow@gmail.com">grantbow@gmail.com</a>> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 23:07, David Cabo <<a href="mailto:david.cabo@gmail.com">david.cabo@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >>  What's the current status of Gears on the XO? Can it be added to Browser? I >> remember someone started working on it a few months ago, but unfortunately I >> don't know if they were successful. >> >>  The reason I'm asking is that GMail is currently rolling out offline >> support, although it's disabled by default at the moment: >> <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-in-labs-offline-gmail.html" target="_blank">http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-in-labs-offline-gmail.html</a> > > Last I looked, Gears worked in Browse, but you had to unzip the .xpi > and put the different bits in two or three different places. > > Regards, > > Tomeu > >>  Regards, >> >> /david >> >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Gabriel Eirea <<a href="mailto:geirea@gmail.com">geirea@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >>> >>> 2009/1/30 Grant Bowman <<a href="mailto:grantbow@gmail.com">grantbow@gmail.com</a>>: >>> > Thank you Caryl and Caroline for forwarding this (originally) from >>> > olpc-sur (south) mail list.  As the Spanish description of the >>> > original email mentions, developers don't always know how they are >>> > used in the classrooms.  I'm curious from a Sugar development >>> > perspective exactly how they are working with email in their class. >>> > As the teacher says in the video, email is "fundamental." >>> > >>> > Are they using a web based email client or something running locally? >>> > The first girl who spoke said it's asynchronous and you don't have to >>> > be connected.  She may be talking about downloading from email, >>> > working locally and then copying and pasting finished work to a >>> > web-based email client but it doesn't sound like it to me. >>> >>> That's exactly what I understood from their description. The teacher >>> sends an email with an attachment. The children download it with gmail >>> at the school and store the attachment in the Journal. Then they take >>> it home, work on it, and when they return to school they send their >>> work to the teacher using gmail again. >>> >>> An email activity with replication or however it is called (making a >>> local copy of the emails and synchronizing automatically with the >>> server whenever there is connectivity), would be very useful so they >>> are not limited to attachments only. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Gabriel _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </blockquote></div> -- "Don't think for a minute that power concedes. We have to work like our future depends on it."  -- Barack Obama