Discussing some features of the upcoming Wordpress 2.6 I highlighted that it will be making use of Google Gears. Sadly it was not meant for offline blogging rather to speed up file loading process in Wordpress.

The good news is that Wordpress.com users can already make use of this feature, now officially known as “Turbo”.

To enable it, login to your Wordpress.com blog dashboard and click the Turbo link on the position illustrated. It will prompt you to download Google Gears extension, allow it and you are good to go.

This will speed up administration file loading process to a huge extent as now all files will be loaded locally from your PC. Google Gears currently works on Firefox versions 2 & 3 and Internet Explorer versions 6 & 7 and Safari 3 support is coming soon.

Self hosted Wordpress users will be able to make use of this feature in the upcoming Wordpress 2.6