Google Gears is Old Story

I don't get all the buzz around Google Gears.
yes, offline web application are really cool, but in order to do it Google makes you download and install an executable. Hello? Anyone heard the name ActiveX?
If you have to install something, making an application to work offline is simply not such an exciting thing (and they still don't do it right. I keep getting JavaScript errors in web sites since I installed the Gears app).

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