Thanks for responding. The page you are referring to clearly states it is not for Linux. As you may have noted I run the kubuntu distribution. So this one will not work.
On 10 mrt, 17:15, Kirk M <[email protected]> wrote: > Sweatshirt - This version off the Mozilla Add-ons site works for Firefox > 3.6, both standard and portable versions. The official version from the > Google Gears site should work okay for 3.5.8. > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13492(for 3.6) > > Once Gears is installed, check it out to make sure it's working ( make > sure you get a dialog box when clicking on "Tools/Gears Settings", etc). > If it is, which it should be, you can ignore the error message you > referenced in your message. It's a minor compatibility checking glitch > in the Gears coding and actually means nothing. > > HTH > > On 03/09/2010 04:53 AM, sweatshirt wrote: > > > From AdWords Google advised me to install gears. > > > Tested config: > > - kubuntu 9.10 (karmic) > > - Firefox-3.5.8 > > - Firefox-3.6 > > > Tested gears: > > - from download site: gears-linux-opt.xpi > > - from suggestion in discussion group: gears-linux-x86_64- > > opt-0.5.34.0.xpi > > > Description: > > Whatever combination of FF and gears i get the same error on > > installation: > > > incompatible extension: > > ... not compatible with your Firefox build type (Linux_x86-gcc3) .... > > > How can this be made to work? > > > Thanks
