Comment #32 on issue 975 by thiagofreirels: FF 3.0.15 said to be
incompatible with Gears 0.5.33.0
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=975
I tried troyengel's solution, and it seemed to work at first, since Firefox
wasn't
able to find an update for Google Gears anymore. However, after I restarted
Firefox,
I got the same usual error message: "Google Gears" could not be installed
because it
is not compatible with your Firefox build type (Linux_x86-gcc3). Please
contact the
author of this item about the problem."
Then I checked about:config again and I noticed there was another line
pertaining to
Google Gears:
extensions.google.updater.{000a9d1c-beef-4f90-9363-039d445309b8}, which
was assigned a string value. At first I tried to delete it from the
prefs.js file,
but it came back as soon as I restarted Firefox. Then I tried to mess with
the
string's value, and I ended up finding a possible solution, which seems to
be working
so far.
I switched the string's value to 9999999999999, and I stopped getting that
error
message everytime I open Firefox. Then I tried 0000000000000 to see what
would
happen, and not only I got the error message, but the value changed to a
seemingly
random 13-digit number. I guess this string is supposed to represent the
amount of
time the browser takes to search for an update.
In case I get the error message again, I'll let you know. Meanwhile, maybe
one of you
could try this solution and see if it works long term, at least until the
Google
Gears team fixes this bug.
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