I agree with you about IE ... Neverthless Google's Picasa for Linux is distributed with a cut down version of wine ... and it does have issues sending POST data without IE ... I hate IE as much as you do.
On 9/11/09, mhenriday <[email protected]> wrote: > > David, I fear that's a bit of an exaggeration. I have no problem > accessing my Picasa Web Albums using «the Google distro of Picasa [for > Linux]» on my 64-bit Jaunty setup. Of course, I never use Internet > Explorer (which I wouldn't wish on my next-worst enemy) - not even on > Windows boxes - so I can't be sure that the problem may not indeed lie > with an inadequate Internet Explorer capability, which leads to the > server denying the request (Error 403). But to confuse Internet > Explorer with the Internet («Thus, browser requests will fail and you > can't post any data to the internet.») is a bit rich. Suman would be > advised, in the event he/she is, in fact, using Internet Explorer, to > try loading Picasa photos to his/her web album in another, more > capable browser, like Firefox.... > > Henri > > On Sep 10, 9:25 pm, David Picella <[email protected]> wrote: >> Picasa for Linux as Distributed by Google through their repos is >> problematic. >> >> This is because it runs on a slimmed down version of the wine windows >> emulator that does not have internet explorer capability. Thus, browser >> requests will fail and you can't post any data to the internet. >> >> This problem has been solved on this >> thread.http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2483740875&topic=6783 >> >> Follow the instructions given by Johan Nidelius starting at post 22 >> >> 1. Install wine >> 2. Install ies4linux (I recommend just using ie6 with Flash 9) >> 3. Install Picasa >> 4. Any other plugins that you might need such as the facebook uploader >> should work after that. >> >> Then you can remove the Google distro of Picasa >> >> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:30 AM, suman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> >> > I am using picasa in Linux. while uploading the photos to web album, i >> > am getting error code 403. >> > What is this error? >> >> > Any help would be appreciated. >> >> > Thank you >> >> -- >> David > > > -- Sent from my mobile device David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-labs-picasa-for-linux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
