Installing Gears in 2012 - osx-snow-leopard

For one of the customers of my company, I have to get Gears working. To explain briefly, they have a site using the Gears local database and now want to really use localStorage (at least for browsers supporting it and still use Gears for the old ones).
To refactor the code and ensure that the HTML5 version works as the Gears version used to work (and that I do not break the existing system is also a plus). And here comes the problem: Gears is not supported anymore and seems unable to install.
My dev' machine is using OSX Snow leopard. I tried the Gears custom installer made by the authors of MailPlane (http://mailplaneapp.com/download/google_gears/) to enable gears on Safari. The installer runs without any issue and I have a "Google Gears settings" entry in Safari's menu. But the code does not work, here's the console output for the database creation code:
> google.gears.factory.create('beta.desktop')
Error
line: 2
message: "'undefined' is not a function (evaluating 'google.gears.factory.create('beta.desktop')')"
sourceId: 419639712
__proto__: Error
(this is the code I got from the customer).
In the console, when I try accessing the Gears factory, I just get a simple html object:
> google.gears.factory
<object style=​"display:​ none;​ " width=​"0" height=​"0" type=​"application/​x-googlegears"></object>​
In Gears preferencies, there's a site of sites for which I can allow Gears to run, but I can't add localhost there (I can't add anything in fact).
As I can't get Safari/Gears working, I decided to setup a WinXP virtual machine, maybe it would work here.
I was able to download the Gears installer. But this one needs file that have been removed from Google servers (at least I guess, but I don't have any firewall installed so I don't see what could block the installer when getting the files ...).
I also tried old Chrome installers (apparently Gears was shipped in Chrome 12-) but none of the installers work (they just, well, do nothing. I even tried to start them from the command line to expect a bit of output but I got nothing).
Another option would be to get a Firefox gears add-on, but they all seem to have disappeared :/
So, the question (finally): does anyone here still have to use Gears and how do you get it running on new machines ?
Cheers,
Vincent

I think The Google Gears API is no longer available.
Please see https://developers.google.com/gears/ page.
Thanks,
Jigar

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I am working with IT MNC and recently we promoted very important functionality to Production. We have started charging customer for this. It is legacy application .
This application can't be tested locally anymore! Earlier we could point out application to lower environment with custom settings in project's config.js file and disabling #same-site-by-default-cookies in Chrome and application could be tested locally. But now we can't!
We tried many different settings and debugged but it could not help !!
It is noted that these settings no longer work in Chrome 94+. These flags are removed entirely.
As per my analysis it is found that application still can be tested locally if we get the portable Chrome. Or older version of Chrome installed in our System. However as per the compliance policy of company and client, we can't get old or portable chrome in system. We have latest version only.
Earlier we used to perform following to run it locally:
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Fire the following command:
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I look forward to hearing from you all guys.
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pgadmin 4 v4.28 keeps loading

I installed pgadmin 4 v4.28 and it keeps loading but does not open, I tried opening it as administrator and it still does not open. I had the older version previously but I have deleted PostgreSQL DB and pg admin properly before I install the above version. can you guys help me out on this? the link I have the screenshot of the problem.
Do the following steps to resolve this:
Open your registry editor.
Change the value of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.js\Content Type from text/plain to text/javascript.
Restart the pgadmin server. You can do this by ending the pgadmin background task from the task manager.
UPDATED ANSWER
PGAdmin has been tracking this as bug 5996. In it, they recommend the following solution:
You can add the following lines to the "config_distro.py" and
restart the pgAdmin 4 server:
import mimetypes
mimetypes.add_type('text/javascript', '.js')
The above workaround should work for you.
They also mention:
In the next release, we're looking to include that into the code, so
users don't have to do it themselves.
But the answer to your question, the config_distro.py can be overwritten
in the subsequent upgrades.
pgAdmin does provide another option to set the settings in the
config_system.py file which is intended for system administrator to
include settings and which is outside of the pgAdmin installation.
Please refer https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/4.28/config_py.html
for more details.
PREVIOUS ANSWER
Another answer had comments asking what caused this/how the author figured it out.
For posterity, this is documented in the FAQ:
When I launch pgAdmin 4 v4.28 or later on Windows, the loading page
never closes. Why?
pgAdmin 4 v4.28 includes additional security features, one of which is
intended to prevent security issues caused by Content Sniffing.
Unfortunately some Windows systems are misconfigured such that this
causes Javascripts used by pgAdmin to fail to load. Opening the
developer tools on your browser will show an error similar to this:
> Refused to execute script from
> 'http://127.0.0.1:57313/static/vendor/require/require.min.js?ver=42800'
> because its MIME type ('text/plain') is not executable, and strict
> MIME type checking is enabled.
>
> (index):39 Uncaught ReferenceError: require is not defined at
> (index):39
This will occur when the value of the registry key at
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.js\Content Type is set to text/plain. To resolve
the issue, use the Registry Editor and reset the value of
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.js\Content Type to:
text/javascript
Finally, restart the pgAdmin server.
Interestingly enough, GoLang, TensorBoard, Django, and many others have had issues filed regarding this same problem. Browsers are refusing to load content because the browser thinks it is being transferred as 'text/plain', based on the registry configuration.
Edited on 25 May 2022 (New Link for pgadmin4 download)
You all have great answers...but then on the experience i just had, the simplest way, which worked for me right away is to install the new version of pgadmin4 without necessarily uninstall the existing one.
That is what i did and i was able to still see all my databases and tables unchanged and untempered.
Just run the installation and you are good to go
You can also downgrade your PgAdmin. I didn't want to change anything in registry editor. So I downloaded and installed pgadmin4-3.6. It works fine on Windows 10 (x64).
I just upgraded PG Admin from v4.28 to V4.29 and it resolved my issue. One can download the latest version from here for Linux, here for Windows and here for Mac.
This is similar to vialy's recomendation. Thanks Vialy's for your input it save my day... :)
I had the same issue with pgAdmin 4.28 using Chrome Browser on windows 10. It started working after I switched to Edge Browser.

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I am trying to create an archive for a XCODE 9 app using NFC core and getting errors (see images) that I cant figure out having tried many settings. We are using the new NFC Core framework in the app and all works perfectly when running on devices etc - just wont create a archive so we can add to TestFight...
Here is a screen shot of me having changed the scheme for Archive to debug, but with no different results unfortunately.
Ok, in my opinion there might not be the release versions of this symbols, it is an option, and if it worked while testing you might have a go compiling with Debug settings the archived version too:
Click on your target scheme settings:
Click on edit scheme:
Select Archive, and then change the Build Configuration to Debug:
Then you can have a go again at archiving... The side effect might be that the executable will be bigger... Let me know if it works :-)
I just wanted to update this post as since upgrading to XCODE 9 Beta 3 all these issues have gone away. I can now Archive with bitcode on and have successfully uploaded to ITUNES connect for publishing externally as a TestFlight without any code changes at all..
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Getting the examples in libspotify to work under Windows 7

I want to get started with libspotify on my Win 7 machine but I dont have a clue on how to get it all setup so that I can even run the examples included in the pack. I have a Spotify Premium account and I have tried installing libspotify by copying libspotify.dll to c:\windows, c:\windows\system32 and to c:\windows\SysWOW64 and also changed the path variable to include the path where libspotify.dll is located but I still dont understand how to get the examples to work.
I have Code::Blocks installed but as soon as I try to import and run any of the .c files included in the /examples/ folder I get all kinds of error messages. The truth is that I am not even sure how to install libspotify and the documentation is absolutely non existent so for a beginner it is impossible to even have a chance at getting started.
Is there somebody out there who can do a simple walkthrough on how to install libspotify and get the examples up and running on a Win 7 (64-bit) machine?
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Debugging Silverlight applications with IE9 beta

I spent some time debugging a SL3 application with VS 2010 in IE9 beta today and noticed a few quirks. Sometimes when launching the Silverlight app in VS it fails to load in the browser, but refreshing with F5 tends to fix the problem. Also, there are sporadic scripting errors that pop up a debug dialog - these also seem to be fixed by refreshing the page. Has anyone run into these problems and found a fix?
EDIT: My most prevalent error is:
Error: ASP.NET Ajax client-side framework failed to load.
I don't understand why, but someone without a name at the Silverlight forums has found a solution that worked for me:
Just add or uncomment this entry to your hosts file (%SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts):
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I noticed this as well with Silverlight 4, but also when I start a simple web project.
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One other fix, related to the others is to change the StartURL to launch to the loop back address directly, rather than editing the hosts file. So, in one app, I've got this as the start URL:
http://127.0.0.1.:60525/
Of course, to make this work consistently, I've selected a "specific port" in configuration, as 60525 in this case.
(the trailing . after the loop back address is to allow Fiddler to do its magic).

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