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Google Gears for 64bit Linux Firefox

Since I run 64bit Ubuntu, I couldn't use use Google Gears. Which was annoying. The Google Gears site says 64bit OSes are not supported.

But it is open source.

So I grabbed the source code, tweaked a few things here and there and I now have Google Gears up and running on my 64bit OS. It hasn't crashed and burned yet, but I haven't really tested it heavily yet, either (suggestions welcome).

Anyway, here's the XPI to install it. I'll post the source soon. Or maybe just the diffs to the Google Gears list.
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Posted on Jul. 19th, 2009 at 10:30 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]karlbowden.myopenid.com

Great work.

Great work! Currently using it with remember the milk, gmail and google reader.
Posted on Jul. 20th, 2009 11:31 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]maxolasersquad.blogspot.com

Instructions

Could you post step-by-step instructions on how you modified and compiled the code? I would like to be able to do this myself.
Posted on Jul. 23rd, 2009 10:52 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]hexmode

Re: Instructions

I'll post my patches as soon as I get back on Monday. I'm
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I'll post my patches as soon as I get back on Monday. I'm <a href-"http://ragbrai.org">on RAGBRAI</a> at the moment, so I can't post it right now.
Posted on Jul. 25th, 2009 06:25 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]http://www.skierpage.com/openid/

Why so big? Not for Firefox 3.6a1pre

Thanks for doing this.

* Add-ons download reported a 16MB download and lib/ff35/libgears.so is 30MB; why so big? (rootkit, virus, ?? :-) )

* Not surprisingly, it reports incompatibility with Firefox 3.6a1pre (the nightly builds I'm running). I can probably use Nightly Tester Tools or manifest hacking to force it.

Did you post "just the diffs to the Google Gears list"? Someone named Scott Wolchok had diffs last year, I think he submitted them to http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=335 and/or the gears-eng mailing list. Maybe Google Gears team will run out of excuses for amd64 with enough prodding from fine bystanders like yourself.
Posted on Aug. 3rd, 2009 08:23 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]hexmode

Re: Why so big? Not for Firefox 3.6a1pre

It's big because it includes the debugging symbols. I'll see if I can't build a regular version and post the diffs.
Posted on Aug. 5th, 2009 09:22 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]sradovanovici.myopenid.com

Re: Why so big? Not for Firefox 3.6a1pre

I was wondering if you had any time to build a Firefox 3.6 version ;-)
Posted on Nov. 5th, 2009 06:09 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply