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My shiny new Google Nexus One wasn’t connecting properly over USB to my Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) notebook using the Android SDK.  Here’s how I fixed it.
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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?

I’ve finally moved permanently to Firefox 3.5 in Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04).  Initially I installed it by following the instructions found here and here.  However, I didn’t put the time in to update my extensions, so I ended up reverting back to the 3.0.* series.  I installed by adding the Security Team’s PPA to my package sources list, but that is apparently no longer necessary.

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.