Firefox 3 released no gears love (Ubuntu Hardy)

[Mike]

I was just curious when the next release of gears is due? I'm anxious
to see what offline docs is like

[Aaron Boodman]

It should work now. What happens when you go to gears.google.com and
follow the installation?

- a

[Mike]

I get the message Incompatible Extension with the details

"Google Gears" could not be installed because it is not compatible
with your Firefox build type (Linux_x86_64-gcc3). Please contact the
author of this item about the problem.

These are my version details inside firefox, and it is the release
version

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061017
Firefox/3.0

On Jun 20, 12:31 pm, "Aaron Boodman" <a...@google.com> wrote:
> It should work now. What happens when you go to gears.google.com and
> follow the installation?
>
> - a
>

[Mike]

I get the message Incompatible Extension with the details

"Google Gears" could not be installed because it is not compatible
with your Firefox build type (Linux_x86_64-gcc3). Please contact the
author of this item about the problem.

These are my version details inside firefox, and it is the release
version

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061017
Firefox/3.0

On Jun 20, 12:31 pm, "Aaron Boodman" <a...@google.com> wrote:

> It should work now. What happens when you go to gears.google.com and
> follow the installation?
>
> - a
>

[Aaron Boodman]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Mike <mhol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Google Gears" could not be installed because it is not compatible
> with your Firefox build type (Linux_x86_64-gcc3). Please contact the
> author of this item about the problem.

Ah, it's because Gears is not compatible with 64-bit linux.

A user on this list has made a build that is, you can try that:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~swolchok/gears/gears-linux-opt-0.3.25.0.xpi

- a

[Mike]

ahh yep that seems to have worked, thanks for the tip and swolchok
thanks for that version ^^

On Jun 20, 12:39 pm, "Aaron Boodman" <a...@google.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Mike <mholli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > "Google Gears" could not be installed because it is not compatible
> > with your Firefox build type (Linux_x86_64-gcc3). Please contact the
> > author of this item about the problem.
>
> Ah, it's because Gears is not compatible with 64-bit linux.
>

> A user on this list has made a build that is, you can try that:http://www-personal.umich.edu/~swolchok/gears/gears-linux-opt-0.3.25....
>
> - a