[Conkeror] google gears, conkeror, gmail...

[Nicholas A. Zigarovich]

Nicholas A. Zigarovich wrote:
> Mark Eichin wrote:
>> I did find one hit that described getting gears to work with xulrunner
>> apps, but it was windows specific and had a bunch of registry setting
>> adjustments and things like that, which also makes it seem possible
>> (but I don't really know the internals yet.
> I checked out the page you mentioned and all they really do is modify 
> the extension's install.rdf to list webrunner as a supported 
> application. I had thought this wasn't necessary when xulrunner's 
> extension compatibility checking was disabled, but after listing 
> Conkeror in Gears' install.rdf, the extension loaded without error.
>
> I'd appreciate it if you (or anyone) could give it a test run. (It 
> loads, but that doesn't necessarily mean it works.) Here is a version 
> of the extension which should load in Conkeror:
>
> http://servo.cc/gears-linux-opt-conkeror.xpi
>
> To modify the extension yourself:
>
> 1. Download the extension.
> 2. Make a scratch directory and extract the xpi there. (It is a zip file.)
> 3 Add an entry for Conkeror to install.rdf. (See the patch attached to 
> this message.)
> 4. Zip the contents of the scratch directory and name the file 
> gears-linux-opt-conkeror.xpi.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> - Nick

I've added some notes about Google Gears to the wiki. Notably, there are 
some ideas about getting it working on Windows.

http://conkeror.org/Extensions#GoogleGears

Cheers,

- Nick

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