Ed Mullen wrote:
On 9/3/2016 at 3:36 PM, Stanimir Stamenkov's prodigious digits fired off:
Sat, 3 Sep 2016 11:42:35 -0700, /David E. Ross/:
On 9/3/2016 11:07 AM, Stanimir Stamenkov wrote:
Sat, 3 Sep 2016 21:00:08 +0300, /Stanimir Stamenkov/:
Sat, 3 Sep 2016 10:37:44 -0400, /Ed Mullen/:
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2016-08-31/what-amazon-s-prime-air-means-for-fedex-and-ups>
This video doesn't play in SeaMonkey but does in every other
browser I tried. Ideas?
Plays for me:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/50.0 SeaMonkey/2.47a2
On another instance also plays with:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/48.0 SeaMonkey/2.45
However on the first instance I get HTML5 video, while on this one I
get Flash video.
Enabling "Advertise Firefox compatibility" was not done or required in
my case.
So with SeaMonkey/2.47 (Fx/Gecko 50.0) the Flash plugin appears defunct,
although I can see it in the Add-ons Manager. I see there's no link to
http://www.mozilla.com/plugincheck/ on the about:plugins page, anymore.
Going to the plugincheck page I don't see Flash listed but few others
(as "unknown status") I see in my Add-ons Manager, also: Microsoft
Office 2016, Google Update.
Turning off "Advertise Firefox compatibility" with SeaMonkey/2.47 causes
either big gray box with "This plugin is disabled" when the Flash plugin
setting is "Always Activate", or big black box with "No compatible
source was found for this media" when Flash is set to "Ask to
Activate". Looks like bad browser feature detection on the bloomberg
site.
With SeaMonkey/2.45 (Fx/Gecko 48.0) the Flash plugin appears still
functional and I get a Flash video no matter the "Advertise Firefox
compatibility" setting, and "Always Activate" or "Ask to Activate" Flash
plugin. With "Never Activate" (disable) Flash plugin I'm getting a
blank black box when "Advertise Firefox compatibility" is checked (may
be this is what Ed experiences?), and a black box with "No compatible
source was found for this media" when "Advertise Firefox compatibility"
is unchecked. I wonder if there's a way to force HTML5 video on the
bloomberg site?
YES! That is it exactly!
I get a "No compatible source was found for this media" if I set both my
Flash and VLC plugins to "Never Activate".
If I set Flash to "Ask to Activate", leave the VLC Plugin set to "Never
Activate", reload the site, the box says "Activate VLC Plugin", click
that and the video plays using the Flash plugin.
I'm out. :)
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