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As you might know, Google is phasing out support for Gears and switching offline capabilities to HTML5. Still, a lot of people rely on Gears for stuff like offline Gmail. The latest official Gears release is 0.5.34 and it constantly gives an incompatibility error with firefox>=3.5.x. There is a google-gears-svn package in Arch Linux‘s AUR, but it is also broken due to Google’s bad design. Apparently the compilation process requires Firefox 2.x to be present as well, or else “make” fails. I guess it’s coded like that for backwards compatibility, but honestly I couldn’t care less about Firefox 2.x.
So, I tried building it manually, letting make fail when it comes to FF2 stuff, taking out the necessary parts for Firefox>=3.6.x and compressing them into an xpi file. The result is below. Enjoy 
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