As the Chrome browser is available for Linux, you might think it’s possible to install the Chrome OS plugin on Linux somehow. Install the Chrome OS Netflix Plugin - Chrome OS is based on Linux and the Netflix app allows video streaming on Chrome OS.As Moonlight lacks DRM support, Netflix will not play in Moonlight. Use Moonlight, an Open-Source Silverlight Implementation for Linux - Moonlight was supposed to bring support for Silverlight web content to Linux, but Microsoft refuses to license Silverlight’s DRM (digital rights/restrictions management) implementation to Moonlight.Netflix could create a solution for Linux users, but they have so far declined to do so - their help page doesn’t even acknowledge that Linux exists.īefore we get into the gory details, here are some clever ideas that could theoretically allow us to watch Netflix on Linux - none of which actually work: As no official version of Silverlight is available for Linux, Netflix won’t work on Linux. Netflix doesn’t work on Linux because the standard web player uses Silverlight - Microsoft’s ill-fated and seemingly abandoned competitor to Adobe Flash - instead of the Flash plugin.
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