[SOLVED]Having Trouble Running Netflix On FF

[tommieshanahan]

Hi Friends,

I am having trouble running Netflix on Firefox. I am not getting any specific error message, but it's just not working. Any thoughts where I could be going wrong?

[doktor5000]

Hi there,

if Netflix still uses Flash, then I'd suggest to use Google Chrome instead. The last forum threads here regarding netflix are quite dated, and most people eventually seem to have been successful with Chrome.

If you still want to get it to work with Firefox (and if Netflix still uses Flash as mentioned) then you need a current flash plugin (which is called pepperflash and comes bundled with Google Chrome) and to install freshplayer, which is a wrapper so that firefox can use that plugin. At least that was the situation when I last looked at it, maybe some other Netflix users can chime in and add their 2 cents

In any case, we have both a MAQeia for Chrome viewtopic.php?f=36&t=2053 and one for Flashplayer: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=880

[vinylninja]

No Flash or Chrome is required. Netflix uses HTML5. But you need Widevine.
Firefox is perfectly capable of playing content from Netflix. Open the Firefox preferences and tick the box for playing DRM protected content. Then go to the site and there you will see an icon on the left in the address bar to enable the plugin. The plugin itself is included by default in Firefox.

[doktor5000]

You are absolutely correct. It was a DRM issue and I got it solved from here. It's really noob friendly in the post.

[doktor5000]

Please also mark your post as solved, by editing the first post and prefixing the subject with [SOLVED], thanks in advance