[ale] Linux + Flash + Old laptop + kids

[briarpatchkid at bellsouth.net (Jim Philips)]

It works fine with Firefox and Flash on my Slackware box. My five-year 
old is a heavy user.

Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sun February 26 2006 8:21 am, Robert Story wrote:
>   
>> My mom has given me and old laptop (K6-550 MHz, 64MB ram) and asked
>> me to turn it into something the grandkids can use to surf/play
>> games. I've found DamnSmallLinux to deal with the low memory size,
>> but the problem I now have is that Firefox + Flash doesn't work
>> right on the primary site the kids use: pbskids.org. The Teletubbies
>> and Sesame Street portions have flash games, and while the page
>> detects the flash plugin and puts up a white box (where a right
>> click reveals the flash plugin menu), the flash game/movie doesn't
>> actually load. Thinking it might be the distro, I tried the site on
>> my FC4 box, with the same results.
>>
>> Anyone using Linux for a kid system have pbskids.org working
>> successfully? Any other suggestions?
>>     
>
> do you have User Agent Switcher
> plugin installed???
>
> you might try it in IE 6 mode...
>
>