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can I play netflix with html5

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tonyinaustria
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I have had a search and in May there seemed news about playing Netflix using html5 in firefox. I have tried but no luck. Is there any up-to-date info about this? Out of all the rubbish programs Microsoft have ever made Silverlight must surely be the worst (with the possible exception of Windows 10 Mail). I want to continue to use my aging netbook (good old xp!) for streaming, I am playing with linux but in the meantime I would love to get rid of the Silverlight crashes. Firefox 40 running on XP.

I have had a search and in May there seemed news about playing Netflix using html5 in firefox. I have tried but no luck. Is there any up-to-date info about this? Out of all the rubbish programs Microsoft have ever made Silverlight must surely be the worst (with the possible exception of Windows 10 Mail). I want to continue to use my aging netbook (good old xp!) for streaming, I am playing with linux but in the meantime I would love to get rid of the Silverlight crashes. Firefox 40 running on XP.

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user633449
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Firefox is all ready for HTML5 Netflix, however Netflix has not turned it on yet. They should soon so just keep Firefox up to date!