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Netflix and XP PRO
My daughter gave her Mother a subscription to Netflix for her birthday.
We have Windows XP PRO SP 3 and use Seamonkey 2.39 but from what I have read on the site we won't be able to use it. Is there any way?? Seamonkey has the Silverlight 5 plugin installed but I do not think that HTML 5 is compatible. Thanks--JAS |
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JAS wrote on 2016/02/18:
My daughter gave her Mother a subscription to Netflix for her birthday. We have Windows XP PRO SP 3 and use Seamonkey 2.39 but from what I have read on the site we won't be able to use it. Is there any way?? Seamonkey has the Silverlight 5 plugin installed but I do not think that HTML 5 is compatible. Thanks--JAS You don't need ANY plug-in (Flash or Silverlight) to use an HTML5 player (which is Javascript and HTML5 code using the video tag). How do you know Seamonkey does not support [some of] HTML5? Despite claiming support for HTML5 by most [new] web browsers, HTML5 won't be fully ratified until 2022, or later. Some features are still fluctuating, like dropping Web SQL Database support to go with IndexDB support. Have you visited one of the HTML5 test sites to check if your web browser supports HTML5? I've never bothered with Seamonkey so I don't know what technologies or degree of support it has for them. http://html5test.com/ If Seamonkey is not [fully] HTML5 compatible then why not use Firefox (on which Seamonkey is based)? The lastest version is 44.0.2. That still runs on Windows XP SP-3; see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...-requirements/ The html5test.com site gave my Firefox 44.0.2 setup a rating of 461 (out of 555); however, I have some features disabled in my instance of Firefox, like geolocation and letting sites spy on my clipboard actions, plus I am pleased that Mozilla has decided to NOT support some of HTML5 (not all of it benefits the end user). Some of the ratings at the HTML5 sites are weighted; i.e., an item may have more than 1 point. Plus they may test for experimental HTML5 features which are obviously not ratified for public consumption. So not getting a perfect is no big deal. Google Chrome (and perhaps other Chromium variants) get a higher score but then it is supporting many HTML5 features that I would like to disable via user configuration. The only article that I found about system requirements for Seamonkey was: http://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc...m-requirements Are you saying the latest version of Seamonkey does not support and will not install (there is a big difference in those two) on Windows XP? Both Flash and Silverlight are in their death throes and will be dead not too long from now. Even Microsoft has announced they will discontinue Silverlight. Despite they will support Silverlight 5 until 2021, they will not move forward to a version 6 and sites don't need it anymore. Mozilla will drop plug-in support. Has Netflix now completely dropped Silverlight support and moved completely to HTML5 video? If you visit Google's YouTube site, do the videos play there okay in Seamonkey? YouTube switched to HTML5 video awhile ago (while still supporting Flash). There might still be Flash videos at YouTube but everything I play there uses HTML5 video. Note that I have the Flash plug-in in Firefox configured to "Ask to Activate" which means Flash is not available in my web browser unless I say so. Many sites with Flash content will test if Flash is available and, if so, use that but if not available then use HTML5 video. |
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On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 10:46:42 -0700, JAS
wrote: My daughter gave her Mother a subscription to Netflix for her birthday. We have Windows XP PRO SP 3 and use Seamonkey 2.39 but from what I have read on the site we won't be able to use it. Is there any way?? Seamonkey has the Silverlight 5 plugin installed but I do not think that HTML 5 is compatible. Thanks--JAS I am running Netflix on a bunch of XP pro machines. I think NF uses Silverlight but I also have some services that use Flash and they work too. I run Firefox on them. |
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JAS wrote:
My daughter gave her Mother a subscription to Netflix for her birthday. We have Windows XP PRO SP 3 and use Seamonkey 2.39 but from what I have read on the site we won't be able to use it. Is there any way?? Seamonkey has the Silverlight 5 plugin installed but I do not think that HTML 5 is compatible. Thanks--JAS It takes a moment to digest the table. https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742 WinXP SP3 (IE8 or IE7 or Firefox 12+) and Silverlight 5 (IE8 or IE7 or IE6 or Firefox 12+) and Silverlight 4 Firefox 42 or later, Chrome 37 or later (HTML5 + DRM) There was some whining from Netflix about a lack of DRM for content protection on HTML5. HTML5 on a number of browsers, works well enough for Youtube, but for Netflix, a dollop of DRM is needed. And some sort of scheme was dreamed up for it, and it might be implemented in relatively recent browsers. So that may account for the insistence on a relatively high version number for Firefox and Chrome. I think Silverlight on the other hand, already had means for supporting DRM. Silverlight won't last forever. Because Microsoft has deprecated Silverlight, that means Netflix will also have to wean itself off the technology. Once Microsoft gets to the point of no longer issuing security fixes for Silverlight, that will provide an incentive to pull the plug on it. (You could check the lifecycle web page at Microsoft, to see the date of last support for Silverlight. I don't know what that date is.) The HTML5 idea was originally intended not to support stuff like DRM. But you can't keep powerful business interests at bay. And everything has to have DRM. I mean, even the nightly news carried over IP to your home, has to have the "Do Not Copy" bit set on the feed. Why ? I guess a lot of people pirate the nightly news and play it two years later. Paul |
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On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:47:42 -0500, Paul wrote:
JAS wrote: My daughter gave her Mother a subscription to Netflix for her birthday. We have Windows XP PRO SP 3 and use Seamonkey 2.39 but from what I have read on the site we won't be able to use it. Is there any way?? Seamonkey has the Silverlight 5 plugin installed but I do not think that HTML 5 is compatible. Thanks--JAS It takes a moment to digest the table. https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742 WinXP SP3 (IE8 or IE7 or Firefox 12+) and Silverlight 5 (IE8 or IE7 or IE6 or Firefox 12+) and Silverlight 4 Firefox 42 or later, Chrome 37 or later (HTML5 + DRM) There was some whining from Netflix about a lack of DRM for content protection on HTML5. HTML5 on a number of browsers, works well enough for Youtube, but for Netflix, a dollop of DRM is needed. And some sort of scheme was dreamed up for it, and it might be implemented in relatively recent browsers. So that may account for the insistence on a relatively high version number for Firefox and Chrome. I think Silverlight on the other hand, already had means for supporting DRM. Silverlight won't last forever. Because Microsoft has deprecated Silverlight, that means Netflix will also have to wean itself off the technology. Once Microsoft gets to the point of no longer issuing security fixes for Silverlight, that will provide an incentive to pull the plug on it. (You could check the lifecycle web page at Microsoft, to see the date of last support for Silverlight. I don't know what that date is.) The HTML5 idea was originally intended not to support stuff like DRM. But you can't keep powerful business interests at bay. And everything has to have DRM. I mean, even the nightly news carried over IP to your home, has to have the "Do Not Copy" bit set on the feed. Why ? I guess a lot of people pirate the nightly news and play it two years later. Paul They pretty much let you steal anything you want in low def. It only seems to be HD that they are protecting. If you have component out and a component in recorder, I am not sure how they stop you from copying HD too but everyone is pushing you to HDMI that has DRM in the hardware. One issue with using the newer browsers is the hardware requirements, which are tougher than the older ones. Usually you can get by it with more RAM. |
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On 2/18/2016 9:46 AM, JAS wrote:
My daughter gave her Mother a subscription to Netflix for her birthday. We have Windows XP PRO SP 3 and use Seamonkey 2.39 but from what I have read on the site we won't be able to use it. Is there any way?? Seamonkey has the Silverlight 5 plugin installed but I do not think that HTML 5 is compatible. Thanks--JAS 1: I installed Seamonkey 2.39.1 on my XP SP3 box, logged into Netflix, clicked on a movie, and was taken to *this page (below). 2: Next I found this discussion which contains a suggestion which worked for me after I did it, then activated Silverlight. http://codeverge.com/mozilla.support...m-2.39/2039086 Ari Hansson wrote: Den l�rdag 14 november 2015 kl. 02:54:06 UTC+1 skrev BL: Since SeaMonkey update to 2.39 I have problem with Netflix. Movie selection loads normally but playback stays at black screen and no sound. I reinstalled Silverlight but problem remains. Netflix plays normally on FF and IE. Any ideas?? Thank You BL I've run into the same thing, and when I tried to watch Jessica Jones about 10 minutes ago, I just get redirected to the Netflix system requirement page. The issue is with Netflix not SeaMonkey. Just a common issue pf stupid agentagent sniffing instead of proper object detection to determine browser requirement. The scourge of poor web development. You can see for yourself Go to about:config Right-click and create new string key general.useragent.override enter value of Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 Restart browser and try netflix and lo and behold it works. You can install a userangent string extension, I was just using this a demo. Best thing is to complain to Netflix support and demand that the properly develop their site. If enough folks complain we may not have to endure the "shame" of not using the browser with the approved name. I did my part. I called them. -- Take care, Jonathan *https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742?tnid=23742 Help Center Netflix system requirements for HTML5 Player and Silverlight Netflix system requirements for HTML5 Player and Silverlight You can use our HTML5 player or Silverlight to watch Netflix movies and TV shows on PCs running Windows XP or later, and Intel-based Macs running OS X Tiger (v10.4.11) or later. You'll find a complete list of requirements below for HTML5, Silverlight 4, and Silverlight 5. Supported Browsers: Google Chrome version 37 or later on Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later and Mac OS X 10.6 or later (Snow Leopard) Internet Explorer 11 or later on Windows 8.1 or later Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 Mozilla Firefox version 42 or later on Windows Vista or later Supported on stable, official release builds from Mozilla. Non-Mozilla builds are not supported. Opera version 33 or later on Windows Vista Service Pack 2 or later and Mac OS X 10.9 or later Safari on Mac OS X 10.10 or later (Yosemite) Supported on all 2012 or later models and select 2011 models Resolution: Stream in HD if your Internet connection supports 5 megabits per second or more. Google Chrome up to 720p Internet Explorer up to 1080p Microsoft Edge up to 1080p Mozilla Firefox up to 720p Opera up to 720p Safari up to 1080p on Mac OS X 10.10.3 or later |
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Mike S wrote:
On 2/18/2016 9:46 AM, JAS wrote: My daughter gave her Mother a subscription to Netflix for her birthday. We have Windows XP PRO SP 3 and use Seamonkey 2.39 but from what I have read on the site we won't be able to use it. Is there any way?? Seamonkey has the Silverlight 5 plugin installed but I do not think that HTML 5 is compatible. Thanks--JAS 1: I installed Seamonkey 2.39.1 on my XP SP3 box, logged into Netflix, clicked on a movie, and was taken to *this page (below). 2: Next I found this discussion which contains a suggestion which worked for me after I did it, then activated Silverlight. http://codeverge.com/mozilla.support...m-2.39/2039086 Ari Hansson wrote: Den l�rdag 14 november 2015 kl. 02:54:06 UTC+1 skrev BL: Since SeaMonkey update to 2.39 I have problem with Netflix. Movie selection loads normally but playback stays at black screen and no sound. I reinstalled Silverlight but problem remains. Netflix plays normally on FF and IE. Any ideas?? Thank You BL I've run into the same thing, and when I tried to watch Jessica Jones about 10 minutes ago, I just get redirected to the Netflix system requirement page. The issue is with Netflix not SeaMonkey. Just a common issue pf stupid agentagent sniffing instead of proper object detection to determine browser requirement. The scourge of poor web development. You can see for yourself Go to about:config Right-click and create new string key general.useragent.override enter value of Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 Restart browser and try netflix and lo and behold it works. You can install a userangent string extension, I was just using this a demo. Best thing is to complain to Netflix support and demand that the properly develop their site. If enough folks complain we may not have to endure the "shame" of not using the browser with the approved name. I did my part. I called them. I also contacted Netflix and have put the new User Agent in but still the same. I may just get her a new tablet but then probably more problems. I like Seamonkey better than NetFlix so we can live without it. Thanks for all the replies and advice. JAS -- You either teach people to treat you with dignity and respect, or you don't. This means you are partly responsible for the mistreatment that you get at the hands of someone else. |
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JAS wrote:
Mike S wrote: On 2/18/2016 9:46 AM, JAS wrote: My daughter gave her Mother a subscription to Netflix for her birthday. We have Windows XP PRO SP 3 and use Seamonkey 2.39 but from what I have read on the site we won't be able to use it. Is there any way?? Seamonkey has the Silverlight 5 plugin installed but I do not think that HTML 5 is compatible. Thanks--JAS 1: I installed Seamonkey 2.39.1 on my XP SP3 box, logged into Netflix, clicked on a movie, and was taken to *this page (below). 2: Next I found this discussion which contains a suggestion which worked for me after I did it, then activated Silverlight. http://codeverge.com/mozilla.support...m-2.39/2039086 Ari Hansson wrote: Den l�rdag 14 november 2015 kl. 02:54:06 UTC+1 skrev BL: Since SeaMonkey update to 2.39 I have problem with Netflix. Movie selection loads normally but playback stays at black screen and no sound. I reinstalled Silverlight but problem remains. Netflix plays normally on FF and IE. Any ideas?? Thank You BL I've run into the same thing, and when I tried to watch Jessica Jones about 10 minutes ago, I just get redirected to the Netflix system requirement page. The issue is with Netflix not SeaMonkey. Just a common issue pf stupid agentagent sniffing instead of proper object detection to determine browser requirement. The scourge of poor web development. You can see for yourself Go to about:config Right-click and create new string key general.useragent.override enter value of Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 Restart browser and try netflix and lo and behold it works. You can install a userangent string extension, I was just using this a demo. Best thing is to complain to Netflix support and demand that the properly develop their site. If enough folks complain we may not have to endure the "shame" of not using the browser with the approved name. I did my part. I called them. I also contacted Netflix and have put the new User Agent in but still the same. I may just get her a new tablet but then probably more problems. I like Seamonkey better than NetFlix so we can live without it. Thanks for all the replies and advice. JAS I had been using Pref Bar UA changer with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 and it did not work but I followed these instruction and it is working. Go to about:config Right-click and create new string key general.useragent.override.netflix.com enter value of Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 Restart browser and try netflix and lo and behold it works. Thanks again everyone JAS -- You either teach people to treat you with dignity and respect, or you don't. This means you are partly responsible for the mistreatment that you get at the hands of someone else. |
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