[dtay]

I wouldn't normally ask here, I'd probably snoop around a lot more than I had but I know that Silverlight had the same compatibility issue for some reason.

Google Gears won't give me the option to install in Safari at Gears

Does anyone else experience this?

[underwhelmed]

From the Google Gears page,
"System requirements

* Windows XP/Vista
* Firefox 1.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+

* Linux (details)
* Firefox 1.5+
* 32-bit OS (64-bit not supported)

* Mac OS X 10.4+, G4+/Intel CPU
* Firefox 1.5+"

I don't see Safari listed, so that is most likely why it won't work.

[w7ox]

So install Firefox. I like it much better in OS X than Safari.

Phil

[JustAMacUser]

I think the main issue is that Gears checks if Safari 4 is installed and then aborts. The biggest hiccup being that Gears doesn't support 64-bit. Of course that's not a big deal on a Mini. There is a user-compiled version which bypasses these checks here:

Download Google Gears for Snow Leopard

I haven't tried it on my Mini, but I have tried it briefly on a development system I use and it seemed to work.

Honestly though, I just use Firefox.