Netflix debuts on Firefox for Linux, but not everyone's happy about it
(PCWorld)

Firefox on Linux is now playing Netflix, but not everyone is happy about it. The streaming video service recently announced that anyone running the latest version of Firefox on Linux can now stream Netflix videos. Previously, only Chrome on Linux worked with Netflix-and unofficially at that. For several years, Netflix has been moving away from plugins like Microsoft´s Silverlight to HTML5 video on Windows and Mac. The idea was that HTML5 freed Netflix streaming from reliance on browser plugins and made it easier for users to get Netflix on their computers without taking any extra steps. But Netflix and other companies looking to use HTML5 brought more to the open web standard than just user convenience. These companies also started pushing to standardize digital right management (DRM) as a part of HTML5, known as Encrypted Media Extensions (EME). Mozilla announced in August 2016 that Firefox 49 would support EME.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here