Firefox for Linux is Now Netflix Compatible (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @04:40AM from the about-time dept.

Brian Fagioli, writing for BetaNews: For a while, Netflix was not available for traditional Linux-based operating systems, meaning users were unable to enjoy the popular streaming service without booting into Windows. This was due to the company's reliance on Microsoft Silverlight. Since then, Netflix adopted HTML5, and it made Google Chrome and Chromium for Linux capable of playing the videos. Unfortunately, Firefox -- the open source browser choice for many Linux users -- was not compatible. Today this changes, however, as Mozilla's offering is now compatible with Netflix!

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This is why by jwymanm · 2017-03-22 04:55 · Score: 2, Informative

The new installer script for latest Firefox fixed this issue and that pesky having plugins problem:
#!/bin/sh
ln -s /usr/bin/google-chrome /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox
1. Re:This is why by roca · 2017-03-22 07:29 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Firefox has been ready for a while. The problem was Netflix sniffing the Linux user-agent and going down the Silverlight path. Now Netflix has fixed that.
  One of the many things that's hard about building a browser is taking the blame for stuff like this.