Comment #1 on issue 990 by [email protected]: Gears doesn't support Chromium on GNU/Linux
http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=990
http://gears.google.com/ System requirements * Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 * Firefox 1.5+ * Internet Explorer 6.0+ * Chrome (pre-installed) * Linux (details) * 32-bit OS (64-bit not supported) * Firefox 1.5+ * Chrome for Linux is not supported <======== Also, in http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=17443 "Current plan is to skip Gears (...) within Chrome". HTH
