On 12/12/2009 05:01 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > On 12/12/2009 4:28 PM, Chuck Johnson wrote: >> YouTube recently upgraded their latest version of Adobe Flash Player, >> and now it no longer plays video on SeaMonkey, even after I upgraded my >> version of Flash. >> >> It works just fine on Firefox, but loading a video on SeaMonkey leaves >> me with a message that says I need to turn on JavaScript or update to >> the latest version of Adobe Flash Player. > > What you are seeing frequently means that the YouTube server is > incorrectly "sniffing" for your browser, sniffing for "Firefox" and not > "SeaMonkey". Worse, if the problem is indeed sniffing, then the > sniffing is incorrectly reporting its results when selected browsers are > not detected. For an explanation of "sniffing", see my > <http://www.rossde.com/internet/Webdevelopers.html#sniff>. > > Please indicate a specific URI within YouTube where your problem > appears. This would be the address you request to see a video, not the > address where you get the message about JavaScript and Flash. > > I request those who report that "It works for me" to select [Help > > About SeaMonkey] from your menu bar. Please reply in this thread -- > replying to your own prior reply -- indicating whether or not "Firefox" > appears in the "Build identifier" at the bottom of the white box. >
I don't think it is a browser sniffing issue at all: Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7pre) Gecko/20091211 Lightning/1.0b1pre SeaMonkey/2.0.2pre works just fine on <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfF01R-1mVk&feature=popular> using: Shockwave Flash File name: /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 10.0 r42 _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
