Can I access Gears from the Chrome extension?

Question

Extension development for Google Chrome 4.x. I would like to keep a couple of options persistent and thought about using the Google Gears database object - since it was always installed with Chrome.
But I could not find the documentation that would let me know, if possible. The only relevant suggestion I could find was

Data is stored using the same source of security policy, which means that the network application cannot access data outside its area

Is this even more important for an extension that runs locally? Is there anything else that could stop me from using the Database object? Thank you for your time.

Answer 1

According to this topic, about people using different gear functions in their chrome plugins: http://groups.google.com/group/gears-users/browse_thread/thread/396c542a7f6d44ce?pli=1 yes.