Gears is not working with Firefox 3.6

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Gears doesn't work in Firefox 3.6 beta 4

Original issue reported on code.google.com by pascal.h...@gmail.com on 28 Nov 2009 at 10:24

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Here's OS X built from SVN. I could't attach it directly to here because 
there's a
10MB limit so it's on my SkyDrive

http://bit.ly/a3EKIs

Tested it on 10.5 Intel Mac

Original comment by sushi.pl...@gmail.com on 7 Feb 2010 at 11:13

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works fine on 10.4.11 PPC Mac. Thanks Sushi

Original comment by danyfarmer@gmail.com on 8 Feb 2010 at 7:37

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Thanks Sushi,
I have OS 10.6.2, should I try it, or it won't work?

Original comment by salim.hb...@gmail.com on 8 Feb 2010 at 7:54

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Works fine on PPC 10.5.8! Many thx, Sushi!!!

Original comment by max.fra...@gmail.com on 8 Feb 2010 at 8:06

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Empeka's version is tested and working on FF3.6 on Win7 x64.
Awesome, got my Offline Gmail, Reader, Calendar and Docs back! :D

Original comment by drmacinyasha on 8 Feb 2010 at 8:09

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Working for me on both Intel & PPC Mac OS 10.5 & FF 3.6, thx Sushi!

Original comment by tim%nolt...@gtempaccount.com on 8 Feb 2010 at 11:46

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WORKING IN MAC OSX SNOW LEOPARD 10.6.2 INTEL

Original comment by borriqui...@gmail.com on 8 Feb 2010 at 12:34

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tvierling, your extension appears to work smoothly.
Kudos!

Original comment by mauro.ci...@gmail.com on 8 Feb 2010 at 1:49

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working with me too on 10.6.2 intel

Original comment by salim.hb...@gmail.com on 8 Feb 2010 at 4:56

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Working in FF 3.6 under Windows 2000 SP4 (the computer is provided by my 
employer and
I cannot upgrade the o.s.)

Thanks, empeka!

Original comment by Fco.Rom...@gmail.com on 9 Feb 2010 at 1:52

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It seems that the sushi's built isn't compatible with the new google buzz... :(
Mac PPC 10.5.8 here

Original comment by max.fra...@gmail.com on 10 Feb 2010 at 2:34

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Still using the same build I posted earlier, and Buzz is working for me. Google 
is
rolling it out to all accounts slowly, so you'll have Buzz soon enough.

Original comment by sushi.pl...@gmail.com on 10 Feb 2010 at 9:31

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Deactivate Offline Gmail, than activate it again, so you get Buzz.

Original comment by typischt...@gmail.com on 10 Feb 2010 at 9:43

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We are currently working on a build that works with Firefox 3.6. It is going 
through
our QA process, and we hope to release it shortly assuming no problems are 
found in QA.

Original comment by ife...@google.com on 10 Feb 2010 at 11:19

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Thx typischtheo! It works! :)

Original comment by max.fra...@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2010 at 5:07

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Anyway I noticed this strange behavior with Gears active:
1. the attachment loading bar disappeared
2. the 'insert image in body msg' icon disappeared

MacPPC 10.5.8

Original comment by max.fra...@gmail.com on 17 Feb 2010 at 2:37

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Hello Guys, do you know when the version for firefox 3.6 for mac is comming?
I am dying without this...

Original comment by die...@gmail.com on 17 Feb 2010 at 4:21

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Hello to I hope the version for Firefox 3.6 for mac is coming soon, are we 
looking at
weeks or months from now?

Original comment by Malcolm....@gmail.com on 18 Feb 2010 at 4:19

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I tried compiling google gears for FF3.6 on my Karmic Desktop. You can download 
it
from here http://bit.ly/atQAEo. Let me know if it works for you guys.

Original comment by pratikms...@gmail.com on 20 Feb 2010 at 1:24

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I've tried the non-official binary above and faced many issues - not sure if 
they are
related or if it is a Gear issue at large. I've had to disable offline 
entirely. I've
lost e-mail that I thought had been sent (but hadn't - and no "backup" in draft 
or
outbox, simply lost). In other cases, e-mails have been sent without their
attachments. And sometime, the sync would simply not work anymore (had to 
disable,
CLEAN THE LOCAL COPY, and re-enable). 

Offline Mail is morphed from an uber-cool feature to a total nightmare in a few
months - I'd advise you to simply disable this feature.

Original comment by sacha%la...@gtempaccount.com on 22 Feb 2010 at 1:24

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Had the same issues when trying chrome's built-in gears two or three weeks ago, 
so I 
think it's a general problem. I copied the text of all messages in the outbox 
to 
clipboard and re-sent them after disabling gears and deleting the gears data, 
so no 
mail was really lost (but delayed, and the receiving person would not know I 
had sent 
it earlier but it didn't work). Still not the thing I'd like to experience.

Would be OK if we had a working html5 solution already, but till it's here I 
want a 
working gears :-(

Original comment by johannes...@gmail.com on 22 Feb 2010 at 1:39

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fully agree  johannes.slotta, it is really a "nor neither" situation: Gear is 
not
working fine and no HTML5 solution is yet there.

BTW, since were actually ok when it was not yet possible to attach files while
offline. Since we can (and since anything goes through the outbox first), 
problems
started popping up.

Original comment by sacha%la...@gtempaccount.com on 22 Feb 2010 at 1:43

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look like gears is definitively dead according to the Gears API blog :
http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/hello-html5.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm
_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+GearsApiBlog+%28Gears+API+Blog%29&utm_content=Go
ogle+International

Original comment by christop...@gmail.com on 23 Feb 2010 at 8:27

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Killing something (or making it unusable) before providing an alternative is an 
awful
practice.

Original comment by sacha%la...@gtempaccount.com on 23 Feb 2010 at 8:36

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Seeing as they started letting it die with Snow Leopard, I simply gave up and 
moved on.

Mind you, if this is how they're going to handle things, I'll be a LOT more 
leery of
using Google products in the future.  And perhaps it's time to re-evaluate a 
lot of
what I currently use Google for.

Original comment by allen.ea...@gmail.com on 23 Feb 2010 at 8:42

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We had some problem with an application on Safari/Snow Leopard and Apple didn't 
do
anything to help us to fix the problem. On Firefox 3.5/3.6 and Opera 10 we have 
no
problem. I think Apple isn't very helpful in case of problems.

Gears works fine on FF 3.0/3.5, and other supported browsers (IE6/7/8, ...). It 
's
not an official release, but beta one. So let them fix the problems with FF 3.6 
(wich
came out less than one month).
Safari is HTML5 compliant (Local Cache for offline application, Web SQL 
Database,
WebWorkers,...) and Gears was only expected to give opportunities for older 
browsers
to have same features. 
I think if Mozilla had supported Web SQL database in Firefox 3.6 Gears was not
usefull in this version.

So bee Cool and wait or try to help.

Original comment by beurther...@gmail.com on 23 Feb 2010 at 12:29

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Gentlemen, this will help you to solve the Issue:
http://ifolder.ru/16205356

This gears compilation perfectly works with FF 3.6 for Windows 32bit ver. You 
got to
drug and drop the dowloaded file to your FireFox window and install it.

The link is taken from: http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/firefox/82358/
There you can find 64bit linux version as well.

The info and comments are in Russian, but hope you'll cope with it :))

Best wishes, from Russia

Original comment by Dzayba...@gmail.com on 25 Feb 2010 at 11:36

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don't believe it died, how comes google adwords is suggesting me to download 
it, if
it's dead? never got this info before on adwords, but today. 

Original comment by ortsi...@gmail.com on 27 Feb 2010 at 6:04

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From Wikipedia "In late November 2009, numerous online news sources reported 
that
Google is going to migrate to use HTML 5 rather than Gears in the future. A 
Google
spokesman later clarified that Google will however continue to support Gears to 
not
break sites using it." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gears_%28software%29

I think they will support it until a working HTML 5 solution is usable.

Original comment by bigras.b...@gmail.com on 27 Feb 2010 at 6:19

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i believe you this, but why would google introduce a new feature in adwords 
that is
in need of google gears? that's how i found this. I wanted to install it, had 
ff 3.6
and didn't work. so i googled after it and found this. 

so that's why I don't get the sense of introducing a new feature, unless the 
right
hand doesn't know what the left one does on google. 

anyway, thanks. I just won't use the new feature then  if it's not compatible 
and if
they don't officially release it. 

Original comment by ortsi...@gmail.com on 27 Feb 2010 at 6:22

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#73: the very same article you're quoting
(http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/hello-html5.html) says:"Support for 
Gears in
Firefox (including 3.6, which will be supported shortly) and Internet Explorer 
will
continue."
The article was posted on Feb 19th.

Original comment by sergio.nasi on 4 Mar 2010 at 7:57

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New Google Gears version 0.5.36.0 now working with FireFox 3.6 !

Regards, DUCMANs

Original comment by DUCM...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2010 at 12:19

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@DUCMANs
It might be working with 0.5.36.0, but it hasn't been officially been released 
(yet)

Original comment by rharm...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2010 at 12:22

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Looks like 0.5.36.0 is getting distributed now - My browser automatically 
downloaded
and installed it at some point over the last two days.

Original comment by jonathan...@gmail.com on 10 Mar 2010 at 5:08

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My dad has Gears 0.5.36.0 and Firefox 3.6 and it STILL doesn't work. Gmail 
synchronises 
his mail, but the "create desktop shortcut" link does not work. Any ideas?

Original comment by coldcran...@gmail.com on 13 Mar 2010 at 3:30

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i can only talk about adwords, there the new version and ff3.6 does work. 

Original comment by ortsi...@gmail.com on 13 Mar 2010 at 3:55

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Do you have any compiled version for ff3.6 in Ubuntu Jaunty 32-bit? BTW, I tried
compiling one for myself but didn't fare well. Maybe a tutorial of sorts on how 
to do
these things for the brave noobs out there will also help? :)

Original comment by asart...@gmail.com on 16 Mar 2010 at 9:24

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Although a FF3.6 compatible version was released, I am seeming to have issues 
with
Google Docs with it. It works just fine for GMail.

Original comment by rharm...@gmail.com on 16 Mar 2010 at 1:43

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I recently installed the 3.6 compatible version too, and my offline Gmail and
Calendar are working, but when I try to enable offline Docs, it doesn't 
"stick;" when
I refresh the page, offline Docs is still disabled.

Original comment by divergen...@gmail.com on 23 Mar 2010 at 1:09

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For me, Gears 0.5.36.0 (winxp/win32) is still causing problems even in Gmail.

In Gmail:  While online for long periods, synchronization actually gets "stuck" 
and
stops -- with the icon still showing online and synchronized.  New mail still
arrives, and it looks like everything's working fine until I realize sent mail 
items
have been sitting in the Outbox for hours on end.  Refreshing the page seems to
unstick it, and it syncs all changes for the last day or so, but it's obnoxious 
to
have to keep making sure mail got sent.

As another commenter said, it won't work in Docs at all.

Original comment by dskimb...@gmail.com on 23 Mar 2010 at 1:27

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I have foolishly arranged my life so that I can't work without Gmail and Google 
Docs
offline (mainly when aboard non-WiFi flights), but have stuck with Firefox 3.5
because of threads like this. If I hadn't, I would have had to migrate two
organizations I help run away from Google Docs, after putting my credibility on 
the
line over the last year to get them to switch to Google Docs. I find it 
unfortunate
that a company the size of Google does not have the resources to keep Gears in 
synch
with Firefox.

Original comment by posl...@gmail.com on 29 Mar 2010 at 12:15

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http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=980#c91

poslfit, my thoughts exactly. Sheesh.

Original comment by izforeve...@gmail.com on 29 Mar 2010 at 1:54

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I lost 20-30 messages that I had composed and sent while offline.  They 
disappeared from my Outbox, but never were actually sent.  If anyone has ideas 
about whether those messages might have been put somewhere that they could be 
found, I would be eternally grateful.

I am running firefox 3.6.6, gears 0.5.36.0.

Offline docs don't work, either, but at least it doesn't pretend to.

Original comment by laidlaw....@gmail.com on 1 Nov 2010 at 6:35

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I had the same experience. I lost messages that I spent an entire airplane ride 
composing. They have to be somewhere in my 
username/library/Caches/Firefox/GoogleGears/....  but I can't find where. Any 
hints? I'd much prefer not to write them again.

Original comment by katyhuff on 4 Nov 2010 at 12:36

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I'm on Firefox 3.6.12 (portable from portable apps) and Gears 0.5.36.0 and 
appear to have had no problems.
I bcc everything to a separate account and don't appear to have anything 
missing...

Although every so often I get an error code (12?) where it sends it, but the 
draft is still shown when online.  I also have the undo labs option turned on.
Advantages of portable version:
a) Can encrypt the whole lot including my email
b) I only have one folder to search for lost data!

Original comment by allan...@gmail.com on 4 Nov 2010 at 8:10

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Solved

svn co http://gears.googlecode.com/svn/trunk 
cd trunk
chmod +x third_party/gecko_1.9/linux/gecko_sdk/bin/*
sed -i "s/\-Werror//" gears/tools/config.mk
cd gears
make MODE=opt

Or 

http://www.atei.ufma.br/~jrbraga/gears-linux-opt-0.5.37.0.xpi

Original comment by jrbr...@gmail.com on 2 Mar 2011 at 1:57