flash version not acknowledged

donnied · 09-25-2008, 03:42 AM

When I go to the Adobe site I see:

You have version 9,0,124,0 installed

However, when I go to another site (for example to watch Heroes: http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/video/episodes/?vid=679404); I'm told I need 'Flash Player 9' or greater.

What is the website looking at?

bathory · 09-25-2008, 04:59 AM

It's looking for IE.
I've used firefox to visit the site and got the same warning as you. Using the "user agent switcher" extension I faked firefox as IE and was able to pass the initial check for flash player, but I couldn't proceed after the flash animated logo.

donnied · 09-25-2008, 05:02 AM

Bleah. And I'd already had to change the useragent to Netscape. I changed the useragent to Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; Windows NT 6.0) and got the same as you: the flash intro with the NBC penguin and that's it.

I also see:
so.addVariable("operatingSystem", compConfig.OSDetection());
so.addVariable("browserSupport", compConfig.isBrowserSupported());
so.addVariable("directInstalled", compConfig.isPluginInstalled())

What is OSDetection looking for?