thanks Troy & Te. everyone look at Te's post, follow the link and help prioritize this problem as Te suggests.
mostly to save others the effort of looking further into a possible fix for this, i want to document that i found this reference to the problem (or a similar one) http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/398497?s=google%20gears%20compatible that included the suggestion to download the xpi file, edit the included install.rdf file, and then install from the edited file. i used wget to download the xpi and zip to extract the install.rdf. however, the line that is suggested for editing in the install.rdf already shows the suggested 'fix'. that is "3.5.*" is in the install.rdf. so looks like this isn't the problem and that this gambit won't help. On Nov 13, 11:18 am, troy engel <[email protected]> wrote: > Ron, if you look closer at the link on that page it goes to install an > old version of Gears (0.5.25.0), which won't actually fix any > problems. Jason is going to see the upgrade dialog pop up on him again > in another day or so, installing this file just downgraded his Gears > and hid the problem. > > The bug is that the 0.5.33.0 Gears upgrade from Google is faulty and > needs to be fixed upstream. > > -te > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:14, Ron Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > > i followed the link and found the explanation of the problem there to > > be clear and, at least in my case, IDed the problem perfectly. but > > when i selected the 32-bit version for what i thought would be more > > instructions an install dialog came up, i balked. what is it > > installing? etc... > > > On Nov 13, 6:17 am, aot2002 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Installing this 32 bit for my machine solved the > >> issuehttp://forums.techarena.in/tips-tweaks/1239847.htm > > -- > troy engel > bash-fu samurai
