Google Gears in Snow Leopard Safari

Joel Drapper — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:25:23 +0000

I used to use Google Gears to access Gmail, Google Docs, etc. offline all the time, but when I upgraded to Snow Leopard, it just stopped working. This is because of some security adjustments that were made in the 62 bit version of Safari for Snow Leopard.

Fortunately there’s a hack which involves installing a special version of Google Gears, and tweeking Safari a little.

Step 1. Download and install a special version of Google Gears made by the Developers of Mailplane from here.

Step 2. Quit Safari, the locate Safari.app in the finder. Side click, and select “Get Info”, or select Safari.app, and press ?i.

Step 3. Check “Open in 32bit mode”

Step 4. Re-launch Safari.

You’re Done!

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