Watching videos on Yahoo News works!

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Wed May 2 09:09:38 UTC 2007


On 01/05/07, Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> > Until now I have not sound a video news website that
> > works with Linux.
> > Today I discovered that Yahoo news video works! I
> > encourage everyone
> > to visit Yahoo, and to support them as they support
> > us. Make sure that
> > your http referer shows that you're on Linux:
> > http://simplesniff.com/
> >
> > Dotan Cohen
> >
> > http://lyricslist.com/
> > http://what-is-what.com/
> >
> Dotan, when did Yahoo start supporting linux?
> dsl.sbc.yaho.com has been my home page for a long time
> and I have requested Yahoo help since installing
> Kubuntu Dapper about 6 months ago several times and
> they have said via email that they don't support
> linux.
> Also had trouble making mozilla browser play embedded
> videos, period, while firefox and swiftfox played
> everything.  But a couple of months ago mozilla
> suddenly started playing embedded videos after an
> update.  Then all 3 browsers would hang(freeze up) and
> I'd have to kill it or X and start all over to get the
> browser to play once or twice before it froze again.
> Reinstalling the browsers and kde seems to have fixed
> things for now.  Never could get a solution to the
> mozilla browser not playing embedds from the list or
> from Kevin DeCorte of mplayer-plugin list.
> When you say Yahoo supports Linux, do you mean that
> you actually get email support re: linux when you
> request it?  Please elaborate.
> TFAR,
>

I simply meant that I can view the video on news.yahoo.com in Linux. I
can't view the video at any other news website.

Dotan Cohen

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