Re: Adobe Flash plugin problem?
Dick Hoffman wrote: Dick Hoffman wrote: Lemuel Johnson wrote: Dick Hoffman wrote: I'm using SM 2.0.4 on a Windows XP-SP3 system. I have no extensions installed. When trying to view the video at the site http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/video/susan-sarandon/1222188/ the site loads so far and then stops with either Done or Read www.nbc.com at the bottom left of the screen. The video does not play although the peacock's tail changes colors from time to time. I looked at about:plugins and it says I have version 10.0 r45 of the Adobe Flash Player installed and a Windows Explore search shows I have only one copy of NPSWF32.dll on the system. IE 8 has no problem playing the video. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Dick They sniff for MSIE, Firefox and Safari. If they don't find one of those they fail. (JavaScript throws error: this.browserDetection() has no properties) Video works for me if I use User Agent Switcher to spoof Firefox. SM 1.1.18, Windows XP-SP3. lj Thanks for your quick replies. Nice to know it's not my installation that's at fault. Guess I'll break down and install the User Agent Switcher. Dick Maybe I spoke too soon. I installed the User Agent Switcher, switched to IE7 and tried to load the video. I got a different appearing page but the video still did not play. Also tried IE8 setting with same result. Deinstalled the Switcher. Dick thanks ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Adobe Flash plugin problem?
William Morrison wrote: I'm running XP Sp3 and couldn't get to work with Seamonkey 2.0.4 but did with IE8 and Chrome, tried Safari for Windows and got a pop-up saying they didn't support that browser with a list of supported ones; Windows: IE7, IE8, Foxfire3, Foxfire2, Chrome with Mac: Foxfire3, Foxfire2, Safari, Chrome, Camino Foxfire? That's a new one on me. If they're sniffing for that, the site is worse than we thought... ;-) -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Adobe Flash plugin problem?
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: William Morrison wrote: I'm running XP Sp3 and couldn't get to work with Seamonkey 2.0.4 but did with IE8 and Chrome, tried Safari for Windows and got a pop-up saying they didn't support that browser with a list of supported ones; Windows: IE7, IE8, Foxfire3, Foxfire2, Chrome with Mac: Foxfire3, Foxfire2, Safari, Chrome, Camino Foxfire? That's a new one on me. If they're sniffing for that, the site is worse than we thought... ;-) Ok so I had my tongue wrapped around my eye teeth and couldn't see what I was typing. LOL I never have used it, just IE, Netscape and Seamonkey but have Chrome and Safari on my computer for when those gave me problems. -- Big Bill ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Adobe Flash plugin problem?
Mark Hansen wrote: On 4/29/2010 3:18 PM, Dick Hoffman wrote: Maybe I spoke too soon. I installed the User Agent Switcher, switched to IE7 and tried to load the video. I got a different appearing page but the video still did not play. Also tried IE8 setting with same result. Deinstalled the Switcher. Dick Actually, you're running a Gecko-based browser, so you want to spoof Firefox. If the site is sending IE-specific code when it thinks you're running IE (because you spoofed it that way), then you'll get code your browser can't run. Just so you understand, the spoofer doesn't make your browser *act* like the browser you're spoofing. It just makes your browser *say* it's the browser you're spoofing. You'll want User Agent Switcher. If I were you, I would install it and learn to use it. By the way, it doesn't come with any Firefox user agent settings. You'll need to get your own and add them to it. You can search (using Google or similar) for User Agent Strings to find lots of them available. OK, I tried User Agent Switcher but there's no Firefox setting in it as installed and I don't understand how to update it to add just Firefox. I then tried Prefbar and got essentially the same result; no Firefox setting and no clear way to update it. There's probably some forum to go to for help with extensions, right? Dick ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Adobe Flash plugin problem?
Dick Hoffman wrote: Mark Hansen wrote: On 4/29/2010 3:18 PM, Dick Hoffman wrote: Maybe I spoke too soon. I installed the User Agent Switcher, switched to IE7 and tried to load the video. I got a different appearing page but the video still did not play. Also tried IE8 setting with same result. Deinstalled the Switcher. Dick Actually, you're running a Gecko-based browser, so you want to spoof Firefox. If the site is sending IE-specific code when it thinks you're running IE (because you spoofed it that way), then you'll get code your browser can't run. Just so you understand, the spoofer doesn't make your browser *act* like the browser you're spoofing. It just makes your browser *say* it's the browser you're spoofing. You'll want User Agent Switcher. If I were you, I would install it and learn to use it. By the way, it doesn't come with any Firefox user agent settings. You'll need to get your own and add them to it. You can search (using Google or similar) for User Agent Strings to find lots of them available. OK, I tried User Agent Switcher but there's no Firefox setting in it as installed and I don't understand how to update it to add just Firefox. I then tried Prefbar and got essentially the same result; no Firefox setting and no clear way to update it. There's probably some forum to go to for help with extensions, right? Dick I use this very handy reference site with User Agent Switcher - http://www.useragentstring.com/ Just go to the List of User Agent Strings, and copy the one you'd like to spoof. Then open User Agent Switcher, select Edit User Agents-New and paste in the new string. Really slick and easy once you get the hang of it, and the website above does a good job of telling you what the contents/syntax of a User Agent string actually mean - I've even hacked up one or two of my own for Safari that weren't listed on the site at the time. -- - Rufus ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Adobe Flash plugin problem?
Rufus wrote: Dick Hoffman wrote: Mark Hansen wrote: On 4/29/2010 3:18 PM, Dick Hoffman wrote: Maybe I spoke too soon. I installed the User Agent Switcher, switched to IE7 and tried to load the video. I got a different appearing page but the video still did not play. Also tried IE8 setting with same result. Deinstalled the Switcher. Dick Actually, you're running a Gecko-based browser, so you want to spoof Firefox. If the site is sending IE-specific code when it thinks you're running IE (because you spoofed it that way), then you'll get code your browser can't run. Just so you understand, the spoofer doesn't make your browser *act* like the browser you're spoofing. It just makes your browser *say* it's the browser you're spoofing. You'll want User Agent Switcher. If I were you, I would install it and learn to use it. By the way, it doesn't come with any Firefox user agent settings. You'll need to get your own and add them to it. You can search (using Google or similar) for User Agent Strings to find lots of them available. OK, I tried User Agent Switcher but there's no Firefox setting in it as installed and I don't understand how to update it to add just Firefox. I then tried Prefbar and got essentially the same result; no Firefox setting and no clear way to update it. There's probably some forum to go to for help with extensions, right? Dick I use this very handy reference site with User Agent Switcher - http://www.useragentstring.com/ Just go to the List of User Agent Strings, and copy the one you'd like to spoof. Then open User Agent Switcher, select Edit User Agents-New and paste in the new string. Really slick and easy once you get the hang of it, and the website above does a good job of telling you what the contents/syntax of a User Agent string actually mean - I've even hacked up one or two of my own for Safari that weren't listed on the site at the time. Thanks, Rufus, for the very simple instructions. That worked; now my wife can watch the genealogy videos with SM to her heart's content. Dick ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Adobe Flash plugin problem?
On 4/30/10 10:34 AM, Dick Hoffman wrote: Mark Hansen wrote: On 4/29/2010 3:18 PM, Dick Hoffman wrote: Maybe I spoke too soon. I installed the User Agent Switcher, switched to IE7 and tried to load the video. I got a different appearing page but the video still did not play. Also tried IE8 setting with same result. Deinstalled the Switcher. Dick Actually, you're running a Gecko-based browser, so you want to spoof Firefox. If the site is sending IE-specific code when it thinks you're running IE (because you spoofed it that way), then you'll get code your browser can't run. Just so you understand, the spoofer doesn't make your browser *act* like the browser you're spoofing. It just makes your browser *say* it's the browser you're spoofing. You'll want User Agent Switcher. If I were you, I would install it and learn to use it. By the way, it doesn't come with any Firefox user agent settings. You'll need to get your own and add them to it. You can search (using Google or similar) for User Agent Strings to find lots of them available. OK, I tried User Agent Switcher but there's no Firefox setting in it as installed and I don't understand how to update it to add just Firefox. I then tried Prefbar and got essentially the same result; no Firefox setting and no clear way to update it. There's probably some forum to go to for help with extensions, right? Dick For PrefBar: 1. Right-click anywhere on the PrefBar toolbar and select Customize PrefBar from the pull-down menu. 2. On the Preferences Toolbar pane of the resulting Preferences window, locate User Agent under either Available Items or Enabled Items. 3. If User Agent is under Available Items, select it and drag it to Enabled Items. Then drag it up or down to where you want it in the toolbar. 4. Right-click on User Agent and select Edit from the pull-down menu. 5. On the Edit Item window, select the + button in the lower-left corner. 6. In the resulting blank entry in the Edit Item window, type Firefox 3.6 WinXP under Label. 7. In the same entry in the Edit Item window, type Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 all in a single line under Value. There is one space between rv:1.9.2.3) and Gecko/20100401. 8. Select the OK buttons on the Edit Item and Preferences windows. To use: * If the User Agent item on the PrefBar toolbar is visible within your browser window, select its down-triangle and then select the user agent you wish to spoof. * If the toolbar is full and the User Agent item is off to the right, select the double at the far right on the toolbar. Select User Agent from the pull-down menu and then select your desired user agent from the pull-down submenu. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Go to Mozdev at http://www.mozdev.org/ for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Adobe Flash plugin problem?
I'm using SM 2.0.4 on a Windows XP-SP3 system. I have no extensions installed. When trying to view the video at the site http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/video/susan-sarandon/1222188/ the site loads so far and then stops with either Done or Read www.nbc.com at the bottom left of the screen. The video does not play although the peacock's tail changes colors from time to time. I looked at about:plugins and it says I have version 10.0 r45 of the Adobe Flash Player installed and a Windows Explore search shows I have only one copy of NPSWF32.dll on the system. IE 8 has no problem playing the video. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Dick ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Adobe Flash plugin problem?
Dick Hoffman wrote: I'm using SM 2.0.4 on a Windows XP-SP3 system. I have no extensions installed. When trying to view the video at the site http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/video/susan-sarandon/1222188/ the site loads so far and then stops with either Done or Read www.nbc.com at the bottom left of the screen. The video does not play although the peacock's tail changes colors from time to time. I looked at about:plugins and it says I have version 10.0 r45 of the Adobe Flash Player installed and a Windows Explore search shows I have only one copy of NPSWF32.dll on the system. IE 8 has no problem playing the video. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Dick I'm on WinXP Pro-SP3, but SM1.1.19 with MultiZilla, IETab and a couple of mail plugins installed, Classic Theme. This page doesn't get past the peacock symbol for me, either. Not even when I choose to view it in an IE tab (IE 8 is installed, only used in situations like this.) I tried one or two other clips at random, and none play. Checking the page code thru W3C Validator, it comes up with 400 errrors and 300 warnings about the state of the code. That's not good. A page can render in IE and not SeaMonkey (or even FireFox) because it was written that way. Probably not intentionally, but since a lot of tools cater to bells whistles that aren't W3C-standards compliant, other browser rendering engines sometimes can't make sense of what the tools produce. Complain to the webmaster and see what they say. It's them, not you. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Adobe Flash plugin problem?
Dick Hoffman wrote: I'm using SM 2.0.4 on a Windows XP-SP3 system. I have no extensions installed. When trying to view the video at the site http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/video/susan-sarandon/1222188/ the site loads so far and then stops with either Done or Read www.nbc.com at the bottom left of the screen. The video does not play although the peacock's tail changes colors from time to time. I looked at about:plugins and it says I have version 10.0 r45 of the Adobe Flash Player installed and a Windows Explore search shows I have only one copy of NPSWF32.dll on the system. IE 8 has no problem playing the video. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Dick They sniff for MSIE, Firefox and Safari. If they don't find one of those they fail. (JavaScript throws error: this.browserDetection() has no properties) Video works for me if I use User Agent Switcher to spoof Firefox. SM 1.1.18, Windows XP-SP3. lj ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Adobe Flash plugin problem?
Lemuel Johnson wrote: Dick Hoffman wrote: I'm using SM 2.0.4 on a Windows XP-SP3 system. I have no extensions installed. When trying to view the video at the site http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/video/susan-sarandon/1222188/ the site loads so far and then stops with either Done or Read www.nbc.com at the bottom left of the screen. The video does not play although the peacock's tail changes colors from time to time. I looked at about:plugins and it says I have version 10.0 r45 of the Adobe Flash Player installed and a Windows Explore search shows I have only one copy of NPSWF32.dll on the system. IE 8 has no problem playing the video. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Dick They sniff for MSIE, Firefox and Safari. If they don't find one of those they fail. (JavaScript throws error: this.browserDetection() has no properties) Video works for me if I use User Agent Switcher to spoof Firefox. SM 1.1.18, Windows XP-SP3. lj Thanks for your quick replies. Nice to know it's not my installation that's at fault. Guess I'll break down and install the User Agent Switcher. Dick ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Adobe Flash plugin problem?
Dick Hoffman wrote: Lemuel Johnson wrote: Dick Hoffman wrote: I'm using SM 2.0.4 on a Windows XP-SP3 system. I have no extensions installed. When trying to view the video at the site http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/video/susan-sarandon/1222188/ the site loads so far and then stops with either Done or Read www.nbc.com at the bottom left of the screen. The video does not play although the peacock's tail changes colors from time to time. I looked at about:plugins and it says I have version 10.0 r45 of the Adobe Flash Player installed and a Windows Explore search shows I have only one copy of NPSWF32.dll on the system. IE 8 has no problem playing the video. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Dick They sniff for MSIE, Firefox and Safari. If they don't find one of those they fail. (JavaScript throws error: this.browserDetection() has no properties) Video works for me if I use User Agent Switcher to spoof Firefox. SM 1.1.18, Windows XP-SP3. lj Thanks for your quick replies. Nice to know it's not my installation that's at fault. Guess I'll break down and install the User Agent Switcher. Dick Maybe I spoke too soon. I installed the User Agent Switcher, switched to IE7 and tried to load the video. I got a different appearing page but the video still did not play. Also tried IE8 setting with same result. Deinstalled the Switcher. Dick ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Adobe Flash plugin problem?
Dick Hoffman wrote: I'm using SM 2.0.4 on a Windows XP-SP3 system. I have no extensions installed. When trying to view the video at the site http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/video/susan-sarandon/1222188/ the site loads so far and then stops with either Done or Read www.nbc.com at the bottom left of the screen. The video does not play although the peacock's tail changes colors from time to time. I looked at about:plugins and it says I have version 10.0 r45 of the Adobe Flash Player installed and a Windows Explore search shows I have only one copy of NPSWF32.dll on the system. IE 8 has no problem playing the video. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I also get the peacock, which periodically refreshes, with a horizontal white line between the main peacock and its reflection. The horizontal line gradually widens (not thickens) as if intended to be an artsy-fartsy progress bar, but stops when it's a little less than twice the width of the peacock. The status bar displays Transferring data from www.nbc.com..., and my LAN icon in the tray stays lit to show data arriving. This is the page's stable state even after 15 minutes of waiting with a broadband connection. If they're going to load an entire half-hour video before displaying any of it, that's both stupid and rude, which is why I closed the window. The video displays no controls, even if I mouse over it. WinXP, SM 1.16, Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Adobe Flash plugin problem?
Dick Hoffman wrote: I'm using SM 2.0.4 on a Windows XP-SP3 system. I have no extensions installed. When trying to view the video at the site http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/video/susan-sarandon/1222188/ the site loads so far and then stops with either Done or Read www.nbc.com at the bottom left of the screen. The video does not play although the peacock's tail changes colors from time to time. I looked at about:plugins and it says I have version 10.0 r45 of the Adobe Flash Player installed and a Windows Explore search shows I have only one copy of NPSWF32.dll on the system. IE 8 has no problem playing the video. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Dick I'm running XP Sp3 and couldn't get to work with Seamonkey 2.0.4 but did with IE8 and Chrome, tried Safari for Windows and got a pop-up saying they didn't support that browser with a list of supported ones; Windows: IE7, IE8, Foxfire3, Foxfire2, Chrome with Mac: Foxfire3, Foxfire2, Safari, Chrome, Camino -- Big Bill ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Adobe Flash plugin problem?
Dick Hoffman wrote: When trying to view the video at the site http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/video/susan-sarandon/1222188/ the site loads so far and then stops with either Done or Read www.nbc.com at the bottom left of the screen. That page is a steaming pile of bad. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/video/susan-sarandon/1222188/ 406 Errors If the bozo that built that site built cars, it would look like this: http://google.com/images?q=Johnny-Cash+One-Piece-at-a-Time ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Adobe Flash plugin problem?
On 4/29/2010 3:18 PM, Dick Hoffman wrote: Maybe I spoke too soon. I installed the User Agent Switcher, switched to IE7 and tried to load the video. I got a different appearing page but the video still did not play. Also tried IE8 setting with same result. Deinstalled the Switcher. Dick Actually, you're running a Gecko-based browser, so you want to spoof Firefox. If the site is sending IE-specific code when it thinks you're running IE (because you spoofed it that way), then you'll get code your browser can't run. Just so you understand, the spoofer doesn't make your browser *act* like the browser you're spoofing. It just makes your browser *say* it's the browser you're spoofing. You'll want User Agent Switcher. If I were you, I would install it and learn to use it. By the way, it doesn't come with any Firefox user agent settings. You'll need to get your own and add them to it. You can search (using Google or similar) for User Agent Strings to find lots of them available. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
