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On 16/01/16 14:54, Mick wrote: |
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> On Saturday 16 Jan 2016 12:49:30 you wrote: |
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>> On Saturday 16 Jan 2016 04:15:33 Dale wrote: |
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>>> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>>>> It's better to tell them you're using the Windows version of Firefox or |
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>>>> Chrome. If you send an IE User_agent, some sites will start messing with |
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>>>> ActiveX etc. |
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>>> |
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>>> That is true but in the cases I used that, it required not only M$ but |
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>>> also IE. Having it set to Firefox or something would be safer as you |
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>>> point out, if IE is not also required. |
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>> Well I tried channel5 website with a changed FF useragent string, by adding |
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>> a general.useragent.override key in about:config |
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>> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0 |
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>> and it still failed. |
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> |
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> Then tried a MSIE useragent string: |
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> |
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> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko |
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> |
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> and continue to get the same error: |
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> |
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> "To view this page ensure that Adobe Flash Player version 15.0.0 or greater is |
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> installed." |
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> |
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> :-( |
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As already pointed out, you need Google Chrome which comes with recent |
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Flash. You can override the User-agent there too and use a Windows |
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Chrome string. |
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