Google Gears Maemo 5/Fennec Port
 

Can someone please port google gears/fennec to Maemo 5 for N900. It's open source, freely available here.

Surprised it hasn't been done already, offline google mail/reader etc. would be epic.

And it shouldn't be that much of a challenge as it's already open source and linux/firefox based.

Cheers!

Re: Google Gears Maemo 5/Fennec Port
 

I would enjoy this feature too, since i don't have a data plan, and would want to cashe my email into my phone without a connection

Re: Google Gears Maemo 5/Fennec Port
 

+1.
I think you can open a bug report.

Re: Google Gears Maemo 5/Fennec Port
 

Well it's not really a bug, it just needs compiling by someone who knows what they're doing (not me), so I don't know if I should do that???

Re: Google Gears Maemo 5/Fennec Port
 

Gears is already ported to Linux 32-bit systems, which is the base of Maemo. My N810 has Maemo 4 installed, and has the Gears requirements or better (libc2.5 and libstdc++6).

I'm assuming Fennec runs as well on the Maemo 5 as it does on Maemo 4, so that part is fine. I did try installing Google Gears via Fennec, and everything seemed fine until the installation actually tried to run.

The problem is that Fennec is still pre-1.0, and reports to Gears that it is an unsupported build type ("Linux_unknownABI"). I have to believe that once Fennec hits 1.0 ("any day now") it should have a proper build identifier.

There is indeed an item in the Gears issue tracker for Maemo support. It has some information about things you can try if you've a technical bent. If not, wait a week or two after Fennec's 1.0 release and see if it works!

Re: Google Gears Maemo 5/Fennec Port
 

Fennec rc was recently released and was unusably slow for the twitterers I saw and for me.