flash on www.nbc.com

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Mon, 3/8/10, Temlakos <temlakos at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/08/2010 01:35 AM, Patrick
> Bartek wrote:
> > --- On Sun, 3/7/10, Michael Hennebry<hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> 
> wrote:
> >
> >    
> >> Is there some trick to getting flash
> >> to work through firefox?
> >> When I click on a Chuck episode,
> >> the peacock shows up and wiggles its tail, but
> that is all
> >> that happens.
> >> Zoom in works.
> >> I've running FC 11.
> >> About tells me that I'm running Adobe Flash
> Player
> >> 10,0,45,2 .
> >>
> >> I can play flash on some sites.
> >> On others, I can download and use mplayer.
> >> On www.nbc.com, neither.
> >>      
> > 32 or 64-bit F11/Flash?
> >
> > Doesn't work either with my 64-bit F12, 64-bit Flash
> 10.0 R45.  Won't play Chuck through www.fancast.com
> either, because it gets it from Hulu  which has
> problems with Linux 64-bit Flash though a browser, but not
> through its Huludesktop app.  However, 32-bit OS and/or
> 32-bit Flash might work.
> >
> > I just checked using VirtualBox running Puppy Linux
> (32-bit) with the default SeaMonkey browser.  NBC
> wouldn't work, but fancast did, even though the display in
> Sea Monkey was shifted.  I have yet to install
> Firefox.  So, I can't check it.
> >
> > B
> >    
> 
> Has this anything to do with why videos won't play on
> foxnews.com when I 
> browse them in Firefox?
> 
> YouTube and other shared-service videos play fine, and so
> do the videos 
> that I embed. But foxnews.com won't play at all.
> 
> Do I need a plugin to get it to work? Or do those videos
> not play nice 
> with flashplayer?

Both (Foxnews & YouTube) work fine here in Firefox 3.5.8 and Flash 10.0 R45 all 64-bit.  No special configurations.  Basically, a stock install of F12.

What version flash player do you have?  And what OS?

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