CNN video
Mike Chambers
mike at miketc.com
Wed Jul 4 14:36:53 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 08:59 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 18:54 -0500, Rod Haper wrote:
> > After a couple of days of Googling for info, I happened upon a
> > work-around for the problem.
> >
> > Click on Tools->Extensions to pop up the Extensions window. Then click
> > on the "Get More Extensions" link at the bottom of the window to bring
> > up the Firefox Add-ons page. Use the Search function to search for
> > "User Agent Switcher".
> > <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59>. Download the User
> > Agent Switcher and restart Firefox to complete the install. Then
> > right-click on the tool bar at the top and select the "Customize..."
> > option. Drag-n-drop the User Agent icon onto the tool bar. Left click
> > the User Agent icon and select the "Netscape 4.8 (Windows Vista)"
> > option. CNN videos will not play correctly.
> >
> > I haven't played with User Agent Switcher enough to know if the problem
> > is CNN rejecting Firefox, Linux or the combination of the two but
> > spoofing the server as Netscape 4.8 running on Windows Vista works. It
> > will be interesting to see what other spoofing combinations work.
> >
> > --
> > Rod
> >
> Here is the thing.It is Tools-> Add-ons
> Then one clicks on Get Extensaions
>
> Wikth those corrections I went through your whole process but CNN stil
> does not work, so I am still frustrated,
I installed the above add-on and the cnn videos worked. I just click on
the icon first, selected netscape for vista and then proceeded to watch
the videos. They seemed to work just fine doing it that way.
--
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY
"Best little town on Earth!"
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list