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newbeeman 06-06-2013 09:12 PM

Netflix & Silverlight error
 
I am a Linux Mint 14 using Netflix quite successfully until MS decided to update Silverlight. Now the screen locks on a download page, with no way around it.
It's pointless attempting the download as it's an .exe and will screw up my machine.
Does anyone have a suggestion, please?

shane25119 06-06-2013 10:05 PM

The netflix-desktop application works really well for me- and takes almost no effort beyond a few lines of code (Confirmed working as recently as this morning for me).

http://www.howtogeek.com/130372/how-...x-desktop-app/

newbeeman 06-07-2013 07:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shane25119 (Post 4966973)
The netflix-desktop application works really well for me- and takes almost no effort beyond a few lines of code (Confirmed working as recently as this morning for me).
http://www.howtogeek.com/130372/how-...x-desktop-app/

Still nothing at my end. It's a Firefox download which halts at a download page.
Any other suggestion, please?

shane25119 06-07-2013 10:05 AM

Can you give us the error messages you are getting?

Just to verify you have Wine installed right? That link I posted above is actually the Windows version of Firefox, since NF refuses to support Linux.

newbeeman 06-07-2013 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shane25119 (Post 4967262)
Can you give us the error messages you are getting?
Just to verify you have Wine installed right? That link I posted above is actually the Windows version of Firefox, since NF refuses to support Linux.

Turns out it's linked to Firefox.
Eric Hoover gave the answer.
In the terminal rm -Rf ~/.wine-browser will delete this file, restart Netflix and it automatically loads the correction.

shane25119 06-07-2013 05:25 PM

Glad to hear it worked out for you.


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