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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 12:54:25
Message-Id: 3074894.RPcGPr4bgl@dell_xps
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree by Mick
1 On Saturday 16 Jan 2016 12:49:30 you wrote:
2 > On Saturday 16 Jan 2016 04:15:33 Dale wrote:
3 > > Neil Bothwick wrote:
4 > > > It's better to tell them you're using the Windows version of Firefox or
5 > > > Chrome. If you send an IE User_agent, some sites will start messing with
6 > > > ActiveX etc.
7 > >
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 >
12 > Well I tried channel5 website with a changed FF useragent string, by adding
13 > a general.useragent.override key in about:config
14 >
15 > Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
16 >
17 > and it still failed.
18
19 Then tried a MSIE useragent string:
20
21 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko
22
23 and continue to get the same error:
24
25 "To view this page ensure that Adobe Flash Player version 15.0.0 or greater is
26 installed."
27
28 :-(
29
30 --
31 Regards,
32 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>