CNN video
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Wed Jul 4 22:49:08 UTC 2007
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.
>
This should produce some interesting statistics for Visa usage based
on visitors to the site...
Mikkel
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