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, -- ======================================================================= Words must be weighed, not counted. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
