[SOLVED] I want to watch Netflix using SolydK

enorbet · 02-23-2014, 09:04 AM

Hello again
Did you check useragent lists to see if your line that you edited for version is character perfect? I chose 22 from a list and mine stays put both in SolydK and my main OpSys, Slackware. I tried on one of them using an "useragentswitcher plugin" but that didn't work for me.

The only other thing I can think of is where your Firefox is installed and how permissions are set for plugins. Maybe the temporary nature of yours is because writing to that directory is presently not allowed.
Best Wishes

PS Regarding SolydK. It's very clean and well-integrated but I wish there was a little more freedom and power. It drops back to console smoothly enough from the login screen that I don't miss booting to command line too badly but it still upsets me rather a lot that it won't let me create a real root account. I haven't tried very hard but I figure I shouldn't have to in a serious distro.

Germany_chris · 02-24-2014, 04:28 PM

You need pipelight to get silverlight to work in your browser it does work don't give up.

phazon · 02-24-2014, 06:23 PM

I think that maybe since I already had useragentswitcher plugin installed and operating, that IT is changing that line when firefox boots. I am going to try to disable the plugin and change that line again to see if it stays put on reboot of firefox. Netflix totally works otherwise.

enorbet · 02-25-2014, 05:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phazon

I think that maybe since I already had useragentswitcher plugin installed and operating, that IT is changing that line when firefox boots. I am going to try to disable the plugin and change that line again to see if it stays put on reboot of firefox. Netflix totally works otherwise.

Yeah that's what I had to do. It's unfortunate really. I wish the useragentswitcher worked properly or had some manual override because for some websites I most definitely want to be counted as a Linux user. I surely don't want to inflate windoze numbers!

phazon · 02-28-2014, 07:19 PM

Interesting -

I just discovered that the user agent plug in leaves a little blue box sitting at the right of my home button in firefox (top right). This in turn has a chevron to the right of it which turns out to be a pull-dwn menu. This pull down menu has 26 choices one of whic is "windows/firefox 26". choosing this once, and it stays chosen even on re-start of firefox, until I chose something else. ONce chosen I can go to netflix and run movies, and I don't even have to choose the netflix app in the aplications menu first.

No manual installation of user agent required, just use the pull down menu.... neato

ALL OF THE FOLLOWING IS NOT REQUIRED FOR ME WHEN I USE THE PULLDOWN AND CHOOSE "Windows/firefox 26";

Quote:

1.) Clicked the tab to open a new browser window
2.) Entered "about:config" in URL go-to field
3.) Clicked "I'll be careful" at the warning window
4.) Entered "useragent" in the search field
5.) Right clicked in empty space and selected New > String
6.) Entered "general.useragent.override" in the dialogue box
7.) Entered
Code:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:22.0) Gecko/20130405 Firefox/26.0

NOTE: This is all being done on a 32 bit machine running SolidX, and

Step 7 effectively replaced the "general.user.agent" line item that was already there instead of adding this as an additional one....

NOTE: Before going to the netflix website, you have to click on your menu tab in the bottom left of your window, and in the search field, start typing "netflix". You will see an application with with the netflix logo in you available choices of applications. Click on that application. Nothing seems to happen, but then when you go to the netflix website, it all works.
(in Ubuntu ans Mint, clicking on this little application spawns a virtual browser window that runs on top of the firefox window, kinda different)

So, YAY, it worked - BUT - it does not "take".

It seems that I have to perform steps 2 through 7 every time I restart Firefox.

When I close and restart Firefox, go to the about:config window and search "useragent", the only "general.user.agent" line item present is the
Code:

Code:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0

Repeating steps 2 through 7 replaces it.

enorbet · 02-28-2014, 09:56 PM

Oh that sounds really cool. Thx. Ima try that