Dato che Google non rilascia la versione a 64 bit di questa utile estensione di Firefox (utilizzata da WordPress, ad esempio, per velocizzare la sezione di amministrazione), ho provveduto a scaricare dal repository subversion il sorgente e modificare le parti necessarie a compilarla a 64 bit con GCC 4.3.

Poiché la licenza di Google Gears è la New BSD License, mi affretto a evidenziare le note di licenza:

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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    this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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    this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
    and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
 3. Neither the name of Google Inc. nor the names of its contributors may be
    used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without
    specific prior written permission.

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WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO
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SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
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Detto questo, ecco il link alla versione binaria di Google Gears 0.5.7.0 per x86_64:

http://files.freelosofia.org/gears-x86_64/gears-linux-opt-0.5.7.0.xpi

Appena avrò il tempo, probabilmente non per questa ma per la prossima release, piuttosto che mettere a disposizione la sola versione binaria metterò online anche la patch da applicare ai sorgenti.

Consideratela la mia strenna natalizia per voi e… buon download. 🙂