Firefox Gran Paradiso RC5 is out; the next version of FF will natively support Google's Gears and will share with Google an address blacklist in order to protect user from accessing to sites that host malicious code.
From one point of view, these are good news: Gears is a wonderful technology and protecting the user is always good, but preventing the user from accessing some sites basing on Google's suggestions, is somehow dangerous.
Moreover, gears will make Google even more pervasive in our computers and I'm not sure at all this is good.
It's true that gear is free software and anyone can use it, but until now, only a single application (by Google, btw) uses it, so I think that it is a little too early to support this technology natively.
On the other hand, always being on the edge is what makes you win.
I'm much more concerned about the blacklist. At least I hope that this will be a very visible feature, as the pop-up blocking one, so that the user can clearly see what's going on and can freely decide to visit a site even if it is on the blacklist
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