Getting Fox News to work with Firefox

David Liguori liguorid at albany.edu
Fri Jan 26 16:09:33 UTC 2007



Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 13:44 -0500, Arch Willingham wrote:
> 
>>I don't remember which post it was but I saw one a while ago about someone else not being able to get the video to work with videos on Fox News. 
>>
>>I use FC6 and I had the same problem and found the solution at a place called greasemonkey.
>>
>>To get Fox News video to work:
>>
>>Install the firefox add-on greasemonkey:
>>http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
>>
>>and then install the FoxNews Friendly Video script from the greasemonkey site: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1371, and it now works for me.
>>
>>You can see the details toward the bottom of the following threads: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewto...hlight=foxnews
>>http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=233985&page=2
> 
> 
> Am I the only one who finds this very frustration. To look at CNN news
> you need one secret and FoxNews another secret, This does not speak well
> for FC6 being a stable useful distribution. I know it is not supposed to
> be. But there are limits it seems to me of how screwy even a Fedora
> distribution is before it is worth releasing. And FC6 is the worst yet.
> My FC4 and I assume my FC5 system can do both CNN news and FoxNews.

Of course you don't see problems like these in Windows machines, do you?




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