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Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
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Native Netflix support coming to Linux
Native support for Netflix is coming to Linux, thanks to their move from Sliverlight to HTML5, Mozilla and Google Chrome. Paul Adolph from Netflix proposed a solution to Ubuntu developers:
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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.
What is the process of getting a new NSS version into the update
stream? Or can somebody please provide me with the right contact?
Thanks!
-Paul from Netflix
While it's been possible to run Netflix on Linux for a while, officially supported native support will be nice. As TheMukt notes:
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Netflix is gradually moving away from Microsoft’s Silverlight and by the end of the year no modern operating systems will need Silverlight to run Netflixt. Google’s Chrome OS was the first operating system to implement support for HTML5. The upcoming release of Mac OSX Yosemite will also drop Silverlight and use HTML5 for Netflix playback. Microsoft own’ Windows 8.x also offers HTML5 support for the streaming service.
Once Ubuntu developers test and push latest nss to the repositories, Netflix will be able to implement the changes Paul is talking about and Linux users will get to watch Netflix without any pain.
The newer version of NSS is set to go out with the next security update.
But how about for the rest of us hacving to eat octopus?! (My great apologies if this is not a cultural reference).
Isn't Google Chrome available in other formats? In any case, I guess it's possible to grab the .deb package, unpack it and use the binary in any distro.
Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
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Originally Posted by odiseo77
Isn't Google Chrome available in other formats? In any case, I guess it's possible to grab the .deb package, unpack it and use the binary in any distro.
My apologies, I was making a reference to your screen name and a film.
Netflix does, indeed, seem to be working fine under Debian.
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