Re: Getting Fox News to work with Firefox

On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 15:58 -0800, David Boles wrote:
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Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 21/01/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Aaron, have you written to Fox news and CNN? Let them know that you
want to view their content but cannot. Explain to them how they are
blocking you. That's the only way to get them to change.


Before you do that you should know that both Fox and CNN videos are made for
Windows Media Player display. I seriously doubt they they will be able to do
anything to help you.
Well, except that there is always a trick that makes it work. So it
could work if someone took the trouble of seeing that it would work by
suggesting that the firefox people make it work. Or maybe it is the
mplayer people that should be addressed since mplayer has a plugin for
windows media player functioning.
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