Comments on: Enable Google Gears and Offline Gmail for Mozilla Prism

By: matt

matt — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:44:40 +0000

Hi. This sounded perfect. However, I had a go, and am running into problems.

I have successfully installed Gears (woohoo!), and can see it in the extensions section of the addons window in my prism app.

However, GMail still insists on trying ot download Gears and won’t recognise that it’s already installed.

I have to turn offline mode on through a menu item in the settings. Once I enable and save, it goes through the normal download process, so of course I still get stuck at the bit that says it won’t install (even though I already did it).

I am using Prism on a Mac running Snow Leapoard (10.6.4)

Any ideas? This would be really handy for me.

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Chris Brunner .com » Blog Archive » Google Gears XPI Download — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:25:43 +0000

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By: Olivier

Olivier — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:19:45 +0000

I made a gears xpi for prism 1.0b2 on top of firefox 3.5 for linux based on your article and Wes’ further fix.

It simplifies the install for people lazy like me.

For those interested, you can grab it here: http://www.bottomlesspit.org/2009/12/14/gmail-offline-with-prism-on-linux

By: anon

anon — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:12:36 +0000

not sure about the motivation here. since gears supports firefox anyway, why bother with prism?

I was hoping to get this working with Prism 0.8 or above, rather than within firefox. there I can see the logic.

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By: wanas

wanas — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:42:43 +0000

I have tried this with greactions addon for google reader, its installed successfully but the addon didnt work :(.
when I open tools > addons I found it loaded
is there any suggestions ?

By: Wes

Wes — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:01:45 +0000

The latest version of Gears, 0.5.30.0, contains its own loader stub that detects which release of Firefox you’re using and then chooses the appropriate module. (At least, that’s what it does on OS X.) This fails when it gets Prism’s version number (eg, 1.0) instead of the 3.0 or 3.5 that it expects.

The workaround is simple enough, although a bit of an ugly hack: http://westacular.livejournal.com/43666.html

By: How to use Gmail Offline with Prism and Ubuntu 9.04 64 Bit « freedom is an illusion

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:27:29 +0000

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By: Chris Lord

Chris Lord — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:02:50 +0000

Aha!!! 1 other thing is that ZIP may append a .zip extension in the name & extension section of Get Info even if you can’t see anything when looking at the file normally.

Up and runnning now – of course you have to redo this every time gears updates…

By: neil

neil — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:16:41 +0000

Many thanks! I didn’t think I’d be able to use Prism for Gmail (I’m on a PC btw), as I hate the standard interface and use Google Redesigned add-on for FF. I used this hack and voila…it works!

Thanks again!!

By: pete

pete — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:42:04 +0000

Hi Pepa,

as I mentioned in the post – your XPI / Zip file is probably badly formed. You should make sure that it’s in exactly the same format as the original one (with the same internal paths).

If I get the chance I’ll post some more info on it, but since my wife had a baby recently don’t hold your breath!

Good luck,

Pete

By: pete

pete — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:40:34 +0000

Try running Console.app, which may give you some more error / debug info as to what it going wrong. Failing that … I’m afraid I’m out of ideas!

By: Pepa

Pepa — Sat, 16 May 2009 23:40:48 +0000

Hi, it doesn’t work for me with Prism 1.0b1. When I launch the addon installation, I get an error “could not install… installer script not found – 204″. Any hints what’s wrong? Thanx very much

By: Chris Lord

Chris Lord — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:18:43 +0000

Hi,

I was very excited to see these instructions but when I tried to replicate, Prism did not allow me to drag the xpi onto the addons window. No errors or anything…

I am using Prism 1 on Mac 10.5.7

Cheers,

Chris

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Notes on Ubuntu at weboholic.de — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:05:56 +0000

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By: cunningham

cunningham — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:27:40 +0000

Excellent! Clear, easy and working instructions for something that has eluded me for a few weeks.Thank you so much.