Chrome for Ubuntu Linux 10.10 not supported by Gears.

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Install Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Daily Build i386 on new PC.

   http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/maverick-alternate-i386.iso 

2. Open Firefox.  Install Google Chrome 6.0.472.63 (linux_ubuntu_i386)

   http://chrome.google.com/

3. Open Google Chrome.  Open http://gears.google.com/

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I did expect Google Gears for Chrome on Ubuntu 10.10.

I see "Chrome for Linux is not supported".

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Google Chrome 6.0.472.63

Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Daily Build i386

Linux 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:34:50 UTC 2010 i686 
GNU/Linux

GNU C Library (Ubuntu EGLIBC 2.12.1-0ubuntu6) stable release version 2.12.1
Compiled by GNU CC version 4.4.5 20100909 (prerelease).
Compiled on a Linux 2.6.35 system on 2010-09-10.
Available extensions:
    crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others
    GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson
    Native POSIX Threads Library by Ulrich Drepper et al
    BIND-8.2.3-T5B
libc ABIs: UNIQUE IFUNC

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 8 Oct 2010 at 10:26

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No linux Chrome support for Gears is a shame. I can't even install it on 
Firefox 3.6.13.

Original comment by [email protected] on 3 Mar 2011 at 4:35