Comment #69 on issue 975 by sampo.niskanen: FF 3.0.15 said to be
incompatible with Gears 0.5.33.0
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=975
This is now just ridiculous.
I've been using off-line Gmail for about half a year now, and I simply love
it. I've
been wondering why I sporadically receive a message from Firefox stating
that "Google
Gears could not be installed", even though it works fine. This report
explains it:
FF has been trying to install an update that is of the wrong architecure
(64-bit
instead of 32). Ironically, the download page explicitly states that
64-bit Linux is
not supported, but 64-bit is the only version available.
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu Lucid, which contains FF 3.6 and the plugin
stopped
working because it was defined for FF 3.5 max. I tried pretty much every
hint
suggested in this thread and then some with no avail. I finally downloaded
the
source code from SVN and hey-presto, with a "make" and "make installers" I
finally
had a 32-bit Linux build that works without a hitch in FF 3.6 (great
compile scripts,
btw!). I had to add a few #includes to about half a dozen files to get it
to compile
but nothing else. The resulting package is attached - use at your own risk.
Later I noticed that Debian/Ubuntu has the add-on pre-packaged in
the "xul-ext-gears"
package, a simple install and that's it. I'm hoping that doesn't check the
Google
site for updates, I trust the Debian volunteers will maintain it better.
Gears is a fantastic tool for browsers while we're waiting for proper HTML5
support,
but as far as I can tell, for half a year no 32-bit Linux user has been
able to
install Gears! I'm really astounded that Google hasn't been able to fix
such a
trivial and critical issue in all this time. I hope they could find enough
resources
to maintain it functional until HTML5 is a reality.
Attachments:
gears-20100426-0.5.36.0-linux-opt-32bit.xpi 5.5 MB
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