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Native Netflix Support Is Coming To Linux

Posted by Soulskill on from the a-pittance-of-love dept.

sfcrazy writes: Native support for Netflix is coming to Linux, thanks to their move from Silverlight to HTML5, Mozilla and Google Chrome. Paul Adolph from Netflix proposed a solution to Ubuntu developers: "Netflix will play with Chrome stable in 14.02 if NSS version 3.16.2 or greater is installed. If this version is generally installed across 14.02, Netflix would be able to make a change so users would no longer have to hack their User-Agent to play." The newer version of NSS is set to go out with the next security update.

3 of 178 comments (clear)

  1. Re:When will it work in Seamonkey and Firefox by flu1d · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm outraged I can't watch Netflix on my Lynx browser!

  2. Re:But the movie selection still sucks by nine-times · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, Netflix should get their act together and stop showing shit movies like "The Elephant Man" and "There Will Be Blood". Comedies like "Grosse Pointe Blank" and "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"? Who would ever want to watch those? Netflix is absolutely useless unless they can show truly great movies like "Transformers 4: Age of Extinction".

  3. Re:When will it work in Seamonkey and Firefox by houstonbofh · · Score: 4, Funny

    wget is still broken too... Bastards.