I sent the following message to: feedback@feedroom.com, salesinquiries@thefeedroom.com, info@feedroom.com. Evidently, feedroom.com provides the Flash video player for companies like the NYTimes, USAToday & Better Homes and Gardens. Linux is being flagged as not being able to handle their content which is incorrect. How often do you take the time to inform content providers of mistakes? (Like the damn Gap.com site - grrrr)
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I'm assuming from your site and the links to the major media companys that you provide the streaming Flash video player. The reason I'm contacting your company is to let you know that the Firefox browser on Linux is incorrectly flagged as not being able to handle the streaming Flash video.
If for example I click the Bloomberg calls strikers 'selfish' link, as seen on www.feedroom.com. My browser will be directed to a NotEnabled.jsp page where I read that:
To view USATODAY.com Video, you must have Macromedia Flash Player (7.0.25 or higher) installed on your computer, and use Internet Explorer 6, Safari or a Mozilla-based browser.
As you can see from this screenshot, the statement
is wrong. My browser is quite capable of handling the Flash video.
Example of Linux viewing streaming flash video: http://www.youtube.com/index?v1mqSfY1CE6E
Advertisers are missing out on the Linux crowd.
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