eno2001's Journal: LINUX: Flash Player 9 (Really)

So there I was trying to get my fix of crappy American television via www.abc.com. What's this new "Ugly Betty" show all about I wondered? I hit the site and I get a message saying that I need to update my Flash 9 player. So I click the link and where do I go? To the same old download that Adobe has had for Linux users for the past 20 years. Dead as a parrot from a Monty Python sketch, only deader. Bah. Well, luckily someone recently informed me of a beta release program for Adobe's upcoming REAL Flash 9 player for Linux. So, I did a bit of looking and found it here at: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html. I went there, downloaded it and then uncompressed and copied the file to my Firefox browser's plugins directory. Then I went back to the ABC site and lo and behold, it works. I get a chance to see this young actress named America potraying Ugly Betty. But who cares when I've got more important things to test with this new Flash 9 beta. YMMV... I'm just posting this in case anyone has been having trouble accessing Flash sites with the standard Flash plugin for Linux. This new beta seems to work a lot better. Merry Christmas and enjoy.

It's not dead!

[johndiii]

It's pining for the fjords...

"Ugly Betty"

[iminplaya]

It's spillover from the (for some reason)very popular Telemundo novela "Betty la Fea". And like all these kind of shows, she takes off her glasses, lets down her hair, her titties grow three cup sizes, suddenly looks gorgeous, and marries the guy that's been raggin' on her during the whole series. Oops, I probably should've given you a spoiler alert.