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Re: flash problem? with Battle Star Glactica webisodes



On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 03:09:33PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:21:01AM -0400, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> > Running sarge here.  Have the flash plugin installed.  Try to access the 
> > Battle Star Galactica webisodes (from www.scifi.com/pulse).  It happily 
> > starts up a new window and stops, with the message "Waiting for 
> > fpdownload.macromedia.com" in the bottom border.  Nothing furter ever 
> > happens.
> 
> You might want to specify what software you're using.  With Firefox 1.5 and
> flashplugin-nonfree, I'm told that I need Flash 8, which of course doesn't
> exist for Linux that I've heard of.
> -- 
> Carl Fink                                   nitpicking@nitpicking.com 
> 
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The mozilla firefox that comes with sarge.  It identifies itself as:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20060629 
Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2sarge9)

And aptitude tells me
i   --\ flashplugin-nonfree                                 7.0.25-5   7.0.25-5 

-- hendrik




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