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The offering is a bit of a competitor to Google Gears, which allows users to access popular applications from Google and others like Zoho in an offline environment. Yahoo BrowserPlus offers a number of other features for desktop and web apps to interact, like allowing users to drag and drop files directly into the Web browser.
Rob Diana took a detailed look at some of the different services offered earlier this year; meanwhile, here’s a video from Yahoo’s Lloyd Hilaiel explaining BrowserPlus and the decision to go Open Source: