[members at lugog] Iceweasel vs Firefox

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 02:05:48PM +0000, Alan Levett wrote:
> My update of Debian Etch to Lenny has been successful, and I have been 
> building the system.
> Recently, Youtube references will not play because the latest Shockwave Flash 
> is not present.  Offer of download in *rpm was accepted, 'alien'ed 
> and 'dpkg -i'ed, but still it warrents a 'not exist' refusal.
> A similar situation arises with a Film site which refuses because the browser 
> is not M$ or Firefox, but Linux Help Forums seem to be unanimous that 
> Iceweasel IS Firefox.
> Any ideas to reslove this would be welcome.
> 

Fake the user agent string?  Use the flashplugin-nonfree for your flash rather than alien-ing
an rpm / use Gnash. You may need to tell YouTube _not_ to store cookies.

Hope this helps,

AndyC

> Thanks
> 
> Alan
> 
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