CNN video

David Boles dgboles at gmail.com
Wed Jul 4 21:32:20 UTC 2007


on 7/4/2007 2:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 July 2007, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 11:15 -0500, Rod Haper wrote:
>>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday 04 July 2007, Rod Haper wrote:
>>>>>> I just tried this, set it for Netscape-4.8, and got told I needed the
>>>>>> Turner Media player with the option to download it now.  All other
>>>>>> spoofs don't get past opening the player window, but don't error
>>>>>> either.
>>>>> What version of the flash plugin do you have installed?  What does
>>>>> about:plugins report?  You need Flash Player version 8 or later.
>>>> I have 9.
>>> That is very strange as it is working for me and numerous others.  Are
>>> you sure that about:plugins reports the flash plugin version as 9.x?
>>> What version of Firefox are you running?
>>>
>>> Are you perhaps using a different helper action for flash which is
>>> pointing to an older version?  To check the flash action:
>>>
>>>    Edit -> Preferences -> Downloads -> View & Edit Actions...
>>>    Use the search function for "flash"
>>>    Select "Shockwave Flash file" and click the "Change Action..." button
>>>    Make sure the "Use this Plugin:" option is selected.
>>>
>>> Note: the above directions are for FF 1.5.0.12.  The sequence may differ
>>> for FF 2.x.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Rod
>> As I have said several times you can't do this unless you change that
>> value of the config parameter:
>> browser.download.hide_plugins_without _extensions from true to false.
> 
> And it appears that 2.0.0.4 doesn't have such a beast.

What he is talking about is in about:config.

BTW from an earlier post of mine

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries




-- 

  David

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