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Google Gears comes in 3 flavours - Windows, Mac and Linux - and supports browsers Firefox 1.5+ and Internet Explorer 6+ - with Safari support coming soon according to Google.

The open-source package allows users to browse "offline" content when they're not connected to the internet, but requires that site publishers explicity enable this functionality through using Javascript to call Google Gears' API functions. So don't expect to instantly start browsing offline just yet. First cab off the rank providing Gears support is Google Reader - which should make long plane trips more enjoyable and productive!

The package is open-source, and Google aims to provide generate a standard for offline content that can be built in to all standards compliant browsers in time, thereby ensuring that offline-content-enabled applications should work seamlessly across all browsers.