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Asked: 2026-05-11T12:18:04+00:00

I want to use google gears, not for functionality but for optimization. I.e. if

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I want to use google gears, not for functionality but for optimization.

I.e. if gears is detected in the browser side, then we will silently use it to do some optimizations and caching in the client side. If it isn’t installed we silently work against the server only.

Somewhere in the FAQ or help pages of our website we will tell the users that our site recommends gears for best performance – but it is not a must, we will not use ‘offline features’.

Do you think this is a valid google-gears usage scenario? Do you recommend for it / against it?

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  1. Sounds like a valid usage scenario to me.. just realise that you won’t be able to do it 100% transparently as the user will have to tell gears to allow your site to use it. With that in mind you should definitely make it an opt in thing (as described in the gears faq), rather than just attempting to use it if you find it installed, otherwise you’ll annoy your users more than the slightly worse performance ever would have.

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