Here's the comment I left on Issue 975. Hope it helps. *********
As far as I can tell there is no Gears version 0.5.33. The latest version of Gears 0.5.32 and there's no update available. I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 with Firefox 3.5.6pre (currently) and was seeing this same problem. I had installed Gears by installing the 0.5.32 .xpi file via the Gears website. But for some reason, Gears 0.5.32 was also installed via the Synaptic package manager. This is a separate install from the .xpi file found on the Gears website and appeared to have been causing the problem. I removed Gears via the package manager and the problem disappeared. This *did not* remove the Gears extension from Firefox. My guess is that a conflict was caused by the system attempting to install Gears into Firefox when the latest version was already installed via an extension. I don't know what other ditros use for a package manager but I would suggest checking to see if your version of Linux already has Gears installed as a package and if so, remove it and use the "official" .xpi version of the Gears website. This way will guarantee regular updates which you may not get via the repositories. HTH On Nov 13, 2:11 pm, te <[email protected]> wrote: > Everyone, please go do what Drew said - only 6 people so far have done > it: > > http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=975 > > Click the star and let Google know there's a lot of us having the > problem. > > -te > > On Nov 12, 2:34 pm, Drew <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I opened this as issue #975 over onhttp://code.google.com/p/gears/issues. > > Visithttp://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=975&q=incompatible%20... > > and click on the faint star in front of the word Issue if you'd like > > to track the issue's progress. > > > Drew > > > On Nov 12, 12:57 am, Steel_J <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I too have the same Firefox version and the same error every time it > > > tries to update itself. > > > > Damn annoying since I cannot seem to stop it from popping a least 2-3 > > > of these message a day. > > > > On Nov 9, 10:48 pm, dundeemt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Bump > > > > Ubuntu 9.04 / FF 3.0.15 > > > > "GoogleGears" could not be installed because it is not compatible > > > > with your Firefox build type (Linux_x86-gcc3). Please contact the > > > > author of this item about the problem. > > > > > On Nov 9, 8:07 am, Rick Richardson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Reinstalled. No dice. > > > > > > "GoogleGears" could not be installed because it is not compatible > > > > > with your Firefox build type (Linux_x86-gcc3). Please contact the > > > > > author of this item about the problem. > > > > > > Version: > > > > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091105 > > > > > Fedora/3.5.5-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.5
