Google Gears Officially Updated For Firefox 3.5

@tombuch: Ditto on the broken gmail! Cycles endlessly from login to loading page, fast enough to make my eyes hurt...

elcrunkeristo

'bout time...what the heck took so long?

it's not coming up for me either (mac), but then again, it could be a mass conspiracy to hold Canadians back...

harv

I'm getting an error manually running the installer on XP… details gives the following:

Downloading file:///G:/temp/clickonce_bootstrap.exe.manifest did not succeed.

No problem installing, but it totally trashed bettergreader for me. No colorful list view. I even did a reboot to see if that would help. No joy. And now to uninstall this "improvement."

stubear

Not working for me on OSX either. The update button said there was no update available. Full uninstall and reinstall of Gears shows it working under Safari but it doesn't even install the plugin for Firefox.

This is version 0.5.29.0

Works great for me on OS X, FF 3.5.

@Matt Gierhart: Hmm, agreed - Nothing for OS X either through FF update or Gears site - which strangely seems to have not a lot on its page for me at the moment, a certain 'empty space' where I might expect to find download/update details usually. Sounds like a rolling launch (!)

whizzbee

Doesn't install on mine. Says it can't contact the server. Also, the "find updates" doesnt work either....did anyone test this before they posted?

Josh Lewis

Gears are not working in Safari (on OS X) either. I'd like to show my current location in google maps but it just shows Washington.

SuryakantiBabcay

I'm on Windows XP / Firefox 3.5 "Find Updates" in Add-Ons finds no update So I went to the webpage, downloaded, installed successfully, and restarted Firefox. It still doesn't work -- Google Gears in Add-Ons is still grayed out and says "Not Compatible With Firefox 3.5"

ZaidBabba

@leftyfb: Are you running a 64bit OS? Gears still doesn't support 64bit linux (much to my dismay).

I'm getting the site, but no download link.

Running 3.5 on osx

haimtime

Vista 32 with Firefox 3.5, but I get the "browser not supported" message as well.

Wow did that ever screw up my gMail in Firfox 3.5, with Windows XP! Crap, I've never seen so much crazy flashing...hopefully it'll be fixed at some point, but I had to disable Gears in the meantime. Oh well, nothing lost since it wasn't working with 3.5 anyway.

tombuch

Is Gears the feature built into Chrome where it says "Create Application Shortcut" cos if it is It's pretty damn cool.
I suppose it does mean you can work off-line, but just being able to run of the cool on-line app's as if they were their own program natively installed on your PC.
And from my understanding Gears will probably be a major part of how ChromeOS works too.

I must be inspired, or being an Adam myself, perhaps all Adam's in the world have a freaky telekinetic medium that aligns our thoughts through Google's vast bandwidth venue.

...after a week of still using Outlook, I decided to see if Google had updated...I just finished installing and syncing Gears not even 20 minutes before this post.

I'm diggin' it. Update: I'm running Windows 7 x64 RC1

Meetloaf13

So if I just avoid the areas on this earth without wifi then I have no need for gears? I think I'll stick with Internet. Offline Internet sounds wrong to me... maybe I'm just not nerdy enough yet!

@leftyfb: I'm not seeing it for OSX yet either.

Matt Gierhart

@leftyfb: Hmm, that strange. The person who sent in the tip was actually on Linux and said it did work for him. Maybe it's one of those rolling releases Google does so well.

Looks like this update is not for linux yet.

From gears.google.com :

Your browser is not currently supported.
Please check the list of supported browsers below.
Gears enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser. Learn More...

System requirements

* Linux (details)
* Firefox 1.5+
* 32-bit OS (64-bit not supported)

Also tried updating the existing disabled addon I have. No updates.

leftyfb

@tombuch:
same here, and i'm on a Mac. reinstalled after uninstalling and same thing happened again. what a mess!

hpearl

@deanbmmv: Gears is just a interface system to allow websites access to the computer outside of the browser.

metaslugx

@gpzbc: Yep that's the same as what Chrome does. It is a very cool feature. Still I'm very much a Chrome user now, FF has slowly lost it's appeal, but thanks for the link anyway. though reading it I was like "I wonder if they'll figure out how to replace the Favicons" cos they look but ugly as desktop icons on Chrome.

no update here. must be a rolling update.

gpzbc

@deanbmmv: check out Prism for Firefox. http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/
or here is the extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6665

gpzbc

@marcus1060: Same thing happened to me, error message was: ERROR SUMMARY
Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
* Activation of C:\Users\Adam\Downloads\GoogleInstaller_en.application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
+ Downloading file:///C:/Users/Adam/Downloads/clickonce_bootstrap.exe.manifest did not succeed.

Adam Bunn

No updates Found. WTF?

I really hate that Google never recognizes the Firefox Nightlies. :(

willy1234x1

Weird... I download it and got "GoogleInstaller_en.application" and I got "Cannot start application"...

marcus1060

No update found, but the manual installer appears to be working. Not feeling like a restart of ff right now, so we'll see later whether it took correctly.

I'd heard murmurs that they were going to switch to just using the built-in html5 support, which apparently can do everything gears can do and more. I wonder if this is just a stop-gap while they work on that. That would explain the long release time: they thought they'd have the html5 implementation ready for ff3.5, but they hit a snag and had to rush to get gears working again. Just a thought though.

askj113 wants a star!

@harv: There seem to be a lot of those....

askj113 wants a star!

This solved the "Cannot start application" error for me:

1. close all your browsers
2. uninstall Gears (I used XP's Add/Remove control panel)
3. open Internet Explorer and visit http://gears.google.com
4. click the install link, and choose to run the installer

This also installs the Firefox addon. For whatever reason, installing through IE was the only way I could get the support in FF 3.5.

YMMV! Hope this helps someone…

Your browser is not currently supported. And I'm running FF3.5... OS X.

SigmundTheSeaMonster

@leftyfb: Used Revo uninstaller to remove it. Post install I had 343 reg entries and 3769 files lingering around. Removing those also cleared my disabled extension.

I wish the google gears installer would prompt whether I wanted a clean-up of it's files when I uninstalled :-(

mskadu

Updated to Gears 0.5.29 on FF3.5 OS X. Had to remove both 0.5.21 extension and disable the Safari plugin in FF before it showed the installer for me.

Vincent Kan

Oh, well this is great. Now it's not working with the new update to Firefox (3.5.1)

Oh, an upgrade! Sweet, let's try this again. Page... agree, yes... install... crap. Linux, yes. Linux with a 64-bit kernel, not quite. I know this problem will solve itself with time, but I kinda wanna use it. Now.

Jerrard Joseph McNeill

Now broken again, by the 3.5.1 Firefox upgrade. Nightly Tester Tools to the rescue, but why does a microversion break your Gears, O Mighty Google?

blacksmith_tb

@harv: Yeah me too! I'm sick of Red Whitey and Blue keeping his boot on my neck. It's just another hard day in the Canadian salt mines. But the sun's gonna shine on a bright new tomorrow!! I feel a great wind rolling across this land! And from where I stand, I SEE a THOUSAND POINTS of LIGHT! Fight, fellow Canucks! Don’t let UNCLE SAM THE SHAM keep you down!!!

OHHHHH Caaaannnnaaaaadaaa------------ (sound of paintbox being strangled)

paintbox

@Adam Bunn: It looks like it's trying to download locally.... for some reason.

paintbox

I like horror. Best horror is the kind that's not happening to you. Gears is not happening to me. Is there anyone having mostly success with GG? If there is, I overlooked your posting. I'm keeping clear of this mess. Yikes!

paintbox

still waiting for this to show up...

jamuka