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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.

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  1. Re:Finally! by i+kan+reed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It almost seems like an accident, though. They need to move to HTML5 because Microsoft supports its technologies like high school students support their relationships.

    It's just a coincidence that HTML5 also broadens deployment targets a little.

  2. Re:When will it work in Seamonkey and Firefox by rikkards · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Screw that when will XBMC have support for it.

  3. 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!

  4. 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".

  5. XBMC support soon? by MMC+Monster · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hopefully this will allow a good XBMC client. Would love to be able to watch netflix seemlessly within XBMC.

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  6. Re: Finally! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't think you understand what "walled garden" means. Just because getting things from the distro is more convenient, don't mean you are forced to.

  7. Re: Finally! by houstonbofh · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, "sudo add-apt-repository ppa:" is hard...

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

    wget is still broken too... Bastards.

  9. Re:Finally! by NotInHere · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Its also a general issue of browser plugins dying out. Silverlight and Flash had a reason when they were created. The web didn't support the things people wanted to use it for. Browsers were immature, and every browser and every version of a browser rendered different results. In the past decade, the browser vendors and w3c have worked hard to create an unified standardized platform to work on. With this platform, plugins are just obsolete. Even today they are a major cause for browser crashes. With IE11, even microsoft has added a serious contribution.