While eagerly installing Offline Gmail on my computers I ran into the fact the Google Gears is actually not available for 64-bit Linux. I managed to find a number of builds out there, but none that would actually work for me with Offline Gmail or the new WordPress.

Building it myself wasn’t as straight forward as I hoped, so let me safe you the hassle and allow me to share the result with you:

gears-linux-opt-05110.xpi

This build was tested with Firefox 3.0.5 on …