alan.lamielle.net » gears http://alan.lamielle.net Alan LaMielle Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:50:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Google Gears in Firefox 3.5 in Linux x64_64 http://alan.lamielle.net/2009/07/19/google-gears-in-firefox-3-5-in-linux-x64_64 http://alan.lamielle.net/2009/07/19/google-gears-in-firefox-3-5-in-linux-x64_64#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:59:45 +0000 Alan LaMielle http://alan.lamielle.net/?p=347 I recently posted about getting Firefox working in Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 x86_64.  Updates to Firefox 3.5.1 were recently pushed to the repositories, and after updating, Gears stopped working again.  Use the Gears build here for Firefox 3.5.1 Linux x86_46, linked to from this Google Groups post.

It really would be nice if 64-bit Linux was supported by Google rather than having to find these work-around builds.  Clearly it works for us, what is the holdup?

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The two extensions I couldn’t live without were Tab Mix Plus and Google Gears.  After some digging, I found a TMP thread with a link (xpi) to a development build that works with Firefox 3.5.  Also, I found a Google groups thread and a blog post with a few links to Linux x86_64 builds of Gears.

Once I upgraded these two extensions I was happy enough to continue using 3.5 permanently rather than just playing with it for an hour or so.

Note: The builtin support for OGG video is amazing.  The problem is it’s only in Firefox right now, so I don’t really expect to see widespread adoption of it.  However, it is one great step towards getting rid of plugin-based video based on flash.

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