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dcc24

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Registered: 2009-10-31

Posts: 732

Google Gears 0.5.37 for Firefox 3.6.x i686 !

As you might know, Google is phasing out support for Gears and switching offline capabilities to HTML5. Still, a lot of people rely on Gears for stuff like offline Gmail. The latest official Gears release is 0.5.34 and it constantly gives an incompatibility error with firefox>=3.5.x. There is a google-gears-svn package in AUR, but it is also broken due to Google's bad design. Apparently the compilation process requires Firefox 2.x to be present as well, or else "make" fails. I guess it's coded like that for backwards compatibility, but honestly I couldn't care less about Firefox 2.x.

So, I tried building it manually, letting make fail when it comes to FF2 stuff, taking out the necessary parts for Firefox>=3.6.x and compressing them into an xpi file. The result is below. Enjoy
http://109.74.200.166/gears-linux-opt-0.5.37.0.xpi

Last edited by dcc24 (2010-08-15 19:54:28)

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tonyisnt

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Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 158

Re: Google Gears 0.5.37 for Firefox 3.6.x i686 !

Thanks for this.  I've been trying to figure out how to make gears work (error free) for a while now.

alejo0317

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Registered: 2010-11-30

Posts: 3

Re: Google Gears 0.5.37 for Firefox 3.6.x i686 !

Thanks U. But i got 404 error .

Can you reupload it?

dcc24

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Registered: 2009-10-31

Posts: 732

Re: Google Gears 0.5.37 for Firefox 3.6.x i686 !

I've just realized it got deleted during a server migration. Should be fixed now.

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It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. (Mark Twain)

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alejo0317

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Registered: 2010-11-30

Posts: 3

Re: Google Gears 0.5.37 for Firefox 3.6.x i686 !

Excellent man!

Thanks