Comment #35 on issue 975 by troyengel: FF 3.0.15 said to be incompatible with Gears 0.5.33.0
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=975

Thanks guys, I got the dialog again after my fix and also noticed that extra "beef" key with the date/timestamp but hadn't had time to investigate. So, what I did was
deleted the updater.beef key and quit FF. I then ran:

  $ date +%s
  1258743226

Started FF, then went to about:config and the key was back (and I got the Update
error dialog right away). The value in the config key was:

  1258743223 836 (extra space mine, last 3 are...milli? secs)

Since the second value is lower (earlier), I can only deduce that this date/timestamp is since the *last* check, not the next time *to* check. Setting it to 99999999's like thiagofreirels pointed out should tell the updater that the last time it checked was, uh... "GMT: Sat, 20 Nov 2286 17:46:39 GMT" according to epochconverter.com. :)

Let's hope we don't see that dialog again now after setting both keys. I suspect that the first key I came up with is for the extension itself (Gears), and the second key is for a generic Google updater shim (there are several references to it in Google
for various softwares).


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