Getting Fox News to work with Firefox

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 00:31 +0000, Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote:
> On Monday 22 January 2007 12:18:00 am Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On 22/01/07, David Boles <dgboles at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Before you do that you should know that both Fox and CNN videos are made
> > > for Windows Media Player display. I seriously doubt they they will be
> > > able to do anything to help you.
> >
> > That's exactly the reason that I write to them. If they are made for
> > Windows Media, then they are repelling Linux and Mac customers. They
> > just might not realize that. Or, they might think that there are not
> > enough Linux users to cater to them. Let them know that they are
> > wrong.
> 
> FWIW, I have just tried CNN and Fox quickly and both work fine in 
> KDE/Konqueror. So it looks like a Firefox problem to me.
> 
> I also tested these sites with the current trunk and branch nightly builds of 
> Firefox and both fail to work "as is".
> 
Well Konqueror doesn't work for me in either FC6 or FC4. Is it clear
that the problem is not the getting to the home page but the playing of
videos. In FC6 I could get sound of sorts but no picture. As far as I
know I have upgraded to the last version of that browser.

-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>