Try putting this in your location bar: javascript:install();
And then press enter. On Jul 17, 11:27 am, [email protected] wrote: > i had the same thing Michael. if you're on a mac i found that if it's > installed for Safari it won't show. uninstall from Safari and Firefox > and the download/instal button will appear in FF. uninstall by running > terminal and typing: > > • Quit Safari > • Open /Applications/Terminal.app > • Type '/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Gears.plugin/Contents/Resources/ > uninstall.command' (including the quotes) and hit enter > • Enter root password when prompted > > On Jul 16, 2009, at 5:46 PM, Michael Knapp wrote: > > I believe I have encountered a bug in the detect script at > gears.google.com. The error I am seeing is > var buildInfo = google.gears.factory.getBuildInfo(); results in > google.gears.factory.getBuildInfo is not a function > > Here's the use case that resulted in it: > > User upgraded Firefox to 3.5 during the few weeks when Gears did not > support the browser. Thus, Gears broke. > > Now that 0.5.29.0 is out, user with the broken Gears goes > tohttp://gears.google.com/to upgrade. > > However, the entire right side of the page athttp://gears.google.com/ > is blank - the blue box that detects if Gears is installed and offers > the link to click here for installation is not coming up. The > firefox > Firefox Add-ons window does not detect Gears as having been > installed > either, so that's not an option. > > User tried removing the relevant Gears directories and so on, but > nothing > leads to the detection script working. > > I am pretty confident it's a bug in that script in the important case > of someone having upgraded > Firefox sometime in the last few weeks. > > Thanks in advance for your help with this.
