Ubuntu to Get Native HTML5 Streaming Through Google Chrome Soon

Posted by thesilviu on Sep 22, 2014 8:26 AM EDT
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Netflix is looking to expand its business, and one of the ways to do that is to look at what other platforms it can support. Ubuntu is the most used Linux distribution, so it stands to reason that they might be interested to have their service working on it.

The Netflix service checks the user agent of the browser before allowing the online streaming to work. This means that users with a lower version of the NSS library (Network Security Services) won't be able to use HTML5 to play the content. As usual, this being Linux, some users have been able to make some changes so that Netflix works, but it's not an elegant solution.

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