Google Gears for 64bit Linux Firefox
Jul 19, 2009
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.
Anonymous
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:52 pm #
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.
hexmode
July 25th, 2009 at 6:25 am #
Re: Instructions
I’ll post my patches as soon as I get back on Monday. I’m on RAGBRAI at the moment, so I can’t post it right now.
hexmode
August 5th, 2009 at 9:22 am #
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.
Anonymous
November 5th, 2009 at 6:09 pm #
Re: Why so big? Not for Firefox 3.6a1pre
I was wondering if you had any time to build a Firefox 3.6 version