I think it happened after I updated my system yesterday. I cannot watch Netflix any more because it says I don't have Silverlight. Looking at chrome:plugins, there is no plugin for Silverlight. I tried disabling and re-enabling the plugin (sudo pipelight-plugin...). It was enabled without any error. Still the same. Any idea what's going on?
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Related: http://askubuntu.com/q/470594/65926 – Eric Carvalho May 26 '14 at 10:42
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you can get native netfilx viewing with chrome with a bit of work: http://askubuntu.com/a/509947/47291 – Mateo Sep 06 '14 at 19:50
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Chrome has dropped support of NPAPI plugins and only supports PPAPI plugins. Since pipelight is (likely) a NPAPI plugin, it cannot be used in Chrome.
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But I think it stopped working because Wine was updated. It was working perfectly until a few days ago! Did Chrome drop support for NPAPI plugins very recently? – lfk May 22 '14 at 12:04
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And do you know when that was released? My previous version of Chrome was downloaded one week ago and worked well – lfk May 22 '14 at 13:12
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2Chrome 35 was released on May 20. You can go to About to see what version of Chrome you're running. – saiarcot895 May 22 '14 at 15:05
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I can use pipelight to access Netflix perfectly on my laptop. We should spoof the user agent to a browser running on either Windows/Mac since Netflix is not officially available for Linux. I recommend the following settings.
Chrome: User Agent Switcher Extension - Switch to Windows Firefox15
Firefox: User Agent Overrider - Switch to Windows Firefox26
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I know that. That's why I said it wasn't working 'any more' :) But didn't know the extension for Firefox. Thanks – lfk May 22 '14 at 12:03