If that's the case, Firefox has a handy user agent switcher add-on that 
will allow you to spoof your UA.  
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

It works great.

Paul Gress wrote:
> On 01/16/10 08:30 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I can no longer watch Hulu content using dev builds of OpenSolaris. (Can
>> you?) For me, attempts to play shows consistently fail with 'Sorry, we
>> are unable to stream this video. Please check your Internet connection
>> and try again.'
>>
>> My connection is fine.... I initially thought it was another case of
>> these bugs:
>>
>> * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=590690
>> * https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497561
>>
>> But then it dawned on me that I have a virtualbox install of Ubuntu
>> Lucid. In that environment, while Firefox does spew out the same "XID
>> collision, trouble ahead" warnings, Hulu works. So now I'm less
>> convinced of those bugs being the (sole) cause.
>>
>> Using older versions of Firefox and using older versions of Flash (i.e.
>> versions in which I am certain Hulu used to work just fine) has made no
>> difference. Using the current contrib build of Firefox has made no
>> difference. To try to bring my environment a tad closer to what's in
>> Lucid (i.e. GNOME unstable), I also just built and installed Gtk+ from
>> git master. No difference.
>>
>> While I probably should just embrace my status as the last living person
>> who has not seen "Lost," I'm open to suggestions about the breakage.
>>
>
> I got the same also when I went to hulu.  I assumed it's that their 
> checking which
> OS is being used and won't let the video stream.  If anybody figures 
> it out let me know.
>
> Paul
> _______________________________________________
> desktop-discuss mailing list
> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org

Reply via email to