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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 flu1d · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. 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.