[mythtv-users] What browser do you use?

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Tue Nov 18 17:59:25 UTC 2008


On Nov 18, 2008, at 9:56 AM, David Brodbeck wrote:

> VCRAddict wrote:
>> At 08:14 AM 11/18/08 -0500, aaron wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Eric Mesa
>>>     <ericsbinaryworld at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Obviously MythBrowser is useless if you want to watch flash  
>>>> content.
>>>> Hopefully that gets fixed in the 0.22 refresh.
>>
>> Gawd, *NO*!
>>
>> Flash is so chronically riddled with security issues that I, for  
>> one, do
>> NOT want it causing my TV (of all things!) to become a paved-with- 
>> gold
>> expressway into my LAN for every script kiddie on the planet!
>
> Most of these issues are pretty well contained on Linux system if you
> don't run it as root.  But if you don't like it, you don't need to  
> use it...
>
> I, personally, would really like to be able to watch content from  
> places
> like Hulu on my Myth box, and that requires Flash.

I do that by running Firefox. I even launch it from a menu in Myth. I  
figured Firefox plus a wireless keyboard/mouse is a much more pleasant  
experience than trying to force something like browsing the web into a  
TV application. No matter how good it gets, it won't be better than a  
real web browser.

-Brad



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