Google Gears no slam-dunk for Mozilla's Firefox

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"The nice thing about Gears is that it's pretty much a la carte," he said. "It's like 'if you don't use it, you don't pay for it.'"

Bottom line, said Shaver, Mozilla doesn't feel a rush to adopt Gears, whether in those parts or as a whole. "We [Google and Mozilla] are agreeing on some things and not on others," he said. "We want to figure out if there's a way to combine their APIs with what we have, so we're not bundling all those components.

"[But] we're not in any hurry to get there. The current model of the Web is much more collaborative rather than competitive," Shaver concluded. "If we all can get the core primitives and focus on what we can't do today, we can see what we can add to the stack and then get a universal buy-in on those."

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