Firefox 38 Arrives With DRM Required To Watch Netflix

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @05:08AM from the chinese-finger-trap dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from VentureBeat: Mozilla today launched Firefox 38 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Notable additions to the browser include Digital Rights Management (DRM) tech for playing protected content in the HTML5 video tag on Windows, Ruby annotation support, and improved user interfaces on Android. Firefox 38 for the desktop is available for download now on Firefox.com, and all existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically. As always, the Android version is trickling out slowly on Google Play. Note that there is a separate download for Firefox 38 without the DRM support. Our anonymous reader adds links to the release notes for desktop and Android.

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Re:Typo: Digital Rights Management by PvtVoid · 2015-05-12 05:23 · Score: 1, Funny

That's right, because you wouldn't want anybody to be able to watch Netflix on your browser. Somebody might want to use it. I mean, what would be next: users wanting http: support?
Re:Typo: Digital Rights Management by PvtVoid · 2015-05-12 06:40 · Score: 4, Funny

Unlike all those GNU fans who, who seem to complain the fact that Firefox actually needs a VGA display to work.
I for one can't wait until Lynx includes an ASCII-art Netflix plugin. Pretty please?