Google Gears and Linux

“Google Gears” 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.

Found the fix in this Google group post which says re-installing Gears should fix this issue.

On more digging, it appears that there are several bugs reported with this issue e.g. Bug # 975, 977. Apparently someone uploaded a custom gears xpi to fix versioning issue. Google indeed has moved on to phase out Gears in favour of HTML5.

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