There will be no new Gears releases, and newer browsers such as Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9 will not be supported.
"With all this now available in HTML5, it's finally time to say goodbye to Gears. Features like geolocation, notifications, web workers, application caches are already available in Google Chrome, so it's probably the right time to stop bundling the Gears plugin. Google discontinued Gears last year to focus on "bringing all of the Gears capabilities into web standards like HTML5" and to implement them in Google Chrome. Gears is a browser plugin released by Google back in 2007, The initial goal was to add support for offline web apps, but the plugin added many other HTML5 features at a time when HTML5 wasn't a priority for most browsers. A recent Chromium build made a significant change: Gears is no longer included in Google Chrome.
The status code returned from the server was: 401 : An unknown error occurred while processing the request on the server. If you cancel on the authentication box, an error comes up stating:
However, when using a PC located on a different LAN (Networks are connected via IPSec tunnel), Google Chrome and Firefox keep repeatedly asking for login credentials. If the report is attempted to be ran from a PC which happens to be on the same LAN as the SQL Server, the report works in any browser. I'm not an MSSQL dba, so please forgive me if I am leaving out some crucial details that could be helpful or if there is already a solution posted for this issue (I'm not really sure what to search for!).Ī dba has set up an SSRS report which has several check boxes that can be selected to run a report.