Advanced

Ubuntu to Get Native HTML5 Streaming Through Google Chrome Soon

Posted by thesilviu on · 4 comments
Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie 		Mail this story
Print this story

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.

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story

» Get new stories by e-mail: nightly or as they are published

« Return to the newswire homepage

  Related stories
» More like this

Comments (4)

number6x ·
See the article here: http://www.webupd8.org/2014/09/nss-updated-to-allow-native-h...

this means that all the support is in place right now. Soon Chrome updates should eliminate the need for using a user agent switcher as a tweak.
BernardSwiss ·
What about Chromium? It sounds to me like that won't work.
Jeff91 ·
Chromium does not have the components needed for this to work.
seatex ·
Has anyone heard if Firefox is planning to add this functionality in a future release?

Post a comment

A free account is needed to post. Write your comment here first: your text is kept in this browser while you sign up or log in, and is waiting for you when you come back.

Your message:
|||||
10
Markdown: **bold**, *italic*, [text](https://link), - lists, > quotes, $x^2$ for math. Formatting help

Sign up and post (it is free)  or  Log in and post