Google Gears now supports Firefox 3

Gears, Google's project to make Web browsers a better foundation for online applications, now supports Firefox 3, the company plans to announce soon.

Gears is a key enabler to the cloud computing model exemplified with Web applications such as Google Docs and Gmail.

 

The company hopes features developed for Gears will eventually settle into HTML, the standard used to describe Web pages. There has been some success: the offline page access and internal database technology released in the first Gears incarnation, has made its way to the HTML 5 specification under development.