Earlier this week, I wrote a synopsis of Google Gears based on industry and what Google itself said about the product in its forums in press-releases.

I told you we would continue to follow developments on the topic as they occurred.

And today, one occurred.

I tried it.

I suppose attempted to try it would have been a better phrasing. .

My personal system is a Mac, on which I use Mozilla’s Firefox as my browser.

Whoops.

Go to the Google Gears Messageboard and you will discover the first major product glitch: Google Gears does not play well with Firefox, Opera, or Safari.

Some may chuckle and call that a ‘feature’ and not a ‘bug’. But this is a pluralist society, people. A product that doesn’t work on Mac’s most common surf-apps is cutting out a very desirable demographic (and I’m not just tooting my own horn, here.)

So I wheeled my executive chair to the other side of this partner’s desk to my partner’s shiny Wintel PC .

Lo! And Behold! Google Gears for Google reader does, in fact, work as advertised.

If you want to see screencaps and a great post on the experience - check out Rusty Brick’s post over at Search Engine Roundtable.

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