Gears

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Firefox Plugin

Install the official build

Note: This does not work with x86_64!

To install Gears in a default Arch installation you'll need to change a setting in the browser.

By default the browser identifies itself as "Gran Paradiso/3.0.8", but in order to download Gears the user-agent string must say Firefox.

To change this update the following value within about:config

general.useragent.extra.firefox

Update the value from "Gran Paradiso/3.0.10" to "Firefox/3.0.10".

You should now be able to install Gears (from its homepage as Firefox-AddOn), and hopefully avoid similar issues on other sites.

Install from AUR

There's a PKGBUILD for the svn version in the AUR: google-gears-svn

Install from the archlinuxfr repository

In case you use the archlinuxfr repository anyway, this is probably the best solution. Just run

yaourt -S google-gears-svn
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