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On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 17:50:19 -0400, Mike Yetto
<unet.lighthouse@xoxy.net> Gave us:

While walking through the streets of Soho in the rain
Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> wrote...

On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 16:08:24 -0400
Mike Yetto <unet.lighthouse@xoxy.net> wrote:

While walking through the streets of Soho in the rain
Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> wrote...

It is possible to access Netflix from Ubuntu without Pipelight
or Silver Light using Chrome. Here is what to do:

Tested with:
libnss3 and libnss3-1d version 3.17.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
libnss-db version 2.2.3pre1-5build3
Chrome version 37.0.2062.120-1 Stable

I added the extension to Chromium (same version, no Google
branding) and I'd like to test it before giving NetFlix a credit
card number. Is that doable?

Mike "the user agent is longer than some TV shows" Yetto

I tested it here in the same Ub install where I tested
Chrome. It did not work. It looked like it was going
to play a video and then an error page came up saying
a component was not found, WidevineCdm. From what I
can find out, it is a DLL. Ugh! So far I have not
found a workaround. It might be just a case of changing
the user agent but without more info it would be a stab
in the dark.

I don't much like google either so I just use Chrome
for Netflix and nothing else with all the web services
turned off. Also, I set Netflix as my startup page
and home page so the browser never goes anywhere else.
I hate to say it but this may be your only option.

My son has the same model laptop I do, but with less memory. We
both run Kubuntu and he has Chrome on his where I have Chromium.
He was complaining about how slow it was so I connected to his
machine with SSH and found nine instances of Chromium running
after he closed the one window he was using. It turns out that
Chrome will open those nine instances on logging in just so it
can keep everything synced and be able to launch quickly.

This reminds me of MS Office running stubs for everything so that
when you run one of the programs once every three months you can
save 23 seconds, but at the cost of everything else slowing down.

Mike "if no Chromium means no Netflix, so be it" Yetto

Fucking Adobe does it.

Firefox does it.

Some manage their poor behavior better than others.

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