[Cialug] Linux and Shockwave

[Tim Champion]

You might also try a firefox add-on that spoofs the user agent. I use User
Agent Switcher to spoof firefox or IE on Windows. See if that takes care of
it.  I have to do that for ADP at work so I can do my timesheet without
going over to Windows.

Maybe that's not the problem, but some sites refuse to function just because
you're using Linux.

Tim Champion
timchampion at gmail.com


On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Stuart Thiessen <thiessenstuart at aol.com>wrote:

> Yep, I am using Linux Mint in this instance to keep it simple. Apparently,
> when I go to the sites they want, it does ask for the shockwave plugin. I
> know it is an older standard, but that is what the websites are asking for.
> So far, the only solutions I am finding are to use Wine with Windows Firefox
> to make this work because they seem to be only developing Flash for Linux,
> but not Shockwave.
>
> I'll keep looking into it. :) Just thought maybe you all had run across
> this one before maybe.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Jan 5, 2010, at 18:40 , kristau wrote:
>
> > What distro are you using, Stu? Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu, but with
> > all the non-free stuff added in) works well out of the box for media
> > playing and flash, but I'm not sure about specific shockwave support.
> > It has a Live CD, though, so you can test it pretty easily.
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