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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 21:28:04
Message-Id: 569AB5D7.2050904@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree by Mick
1 Mick wrote:
2 > On Saturday 16 Jan 2016 12:49:30 you wrote:
3 >> On Saturday 16 Jan 2016 04:15:33 Dale wrote:
4 >>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
5 >>>> It's better to tell them you're using the Windows version of Firefox or
6 >>>> Chrome. If you send an IE User_agent, some sites will start messing with
7 >>>> ActiveX etc.
8 >>> That is true but in the cases I used that, it required not only M$ but
9 >>> also IE. Having it set to Firefox or something would be safer as you
10 >>> point out, if IE is not also required.
11 >> Well I tried channel5 website with a changed FF useragent string, by adding
12 >> a general.useragent.override key in about:config
13 >>
14 >> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
15 >>
16 >> and it still failed.
17 > Then tried a MSIE useragent string:
18 >
19 > Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko
20 >
21 > and continue to get the same error:
22 >
23 > "To view this page ensure that Adobe Flash Player version 15.0.0 or greater is
24 > installed."
25 >
26 > :-(
27 >
28
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30 Sounds like you need a way to get it to lie about the version of flash
31 you are using now. I'm not sure how one would do that but it seems that
32 is what it is complaining about.
33
34 Sometimes I wish we were back in the days of text, just not dial-up.
35 Don't want any more dial-up days. :/
36
37 Dale
38
39 :-) :-)