I am a Netflix user I am also a Linux user. I would also like to use Firefox but you do not provide any DRM support. When will this change?
Perhaps then is when I start using Firefox again. I don't like the idea of having to have a different browser for each different thing I want a browser to do, that would be rediculous. What other details could you possibly need? I like having the choice to use or not use DRM material and your lack of providing that choice is objectionable, just as objectionable as it is for DRM providers, ie: Nook for PC, to not support my choice as a Linux user. I'm sure I'm going to miss Firefox, I've been using it for about 15 years now. I no longer buy any Nook books! I support your choice of not supporting Linux in this way if its your attitude that Linux users are only 2% or 3% of the worlds OS users anyway. Another reason to believev in Google, a great browser, as well as Earth, Maps, Search, OS, and digitizing the worlds libraries. All honorable endevors by what seems to be a more and more honorable company all the time. Why don't you (Firefox) fully support HTML 5 yet? What seems to be the hold-up? DRM support is part of that!
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Netflix needs Silverlight.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/easily-enable-silverlight-watch-netflix-linux/
Silverlight is not available for Linux. Microsoft does not support Linux. Netflix supports HTML 5 and will soon be dropping support for Silverlight. So HTML 5 it is, period.
Hi Timevirus,
This is a good question!
Firefox has traditionally lagged behind other browsers in terms of DRM support, because DRM is a thorny issue for Mozilla. Mozillians believe in an open web controlled by the users - with users having the power to remix and create new content. DRM restricts what users can do and runs counter to that.
However, things are changing. Some very clever folks are working to integrate a new DRM technology (called EME) into Firefox. EME has been advocated by many of the big players in the industry (including Netflix) - so, hopefully, both Firefox and Netflix will eventually work with EME.
EME is scheduled to land in Firefox 37, due to be released in the second week of April 2015. But this is tentative - so it could well be later.
Hope this helps answer your question.
I'm not sure what the current status of EME (Encrypted Media Extensions) support is.