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firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.centos.x86_64 and Netflix

By Bernard Lheureux at 02/09/2019 - 09:10

Hi all,

Since the last upgrade to firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.centos.x86_64 on my
CentOS 7, it is no longer possible to watch Netflix with my Firefox, it
always says that "Firefox is installing components needed to play the
audio or video on this page. Please try again later."
But nothing happens and Netflix is no longer readable with Firefox...
I tried downgrading to firefox-60.4.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 and al is now
correct with Netflix...
Anyone had experienced the same behavior ?

Comments

Re: firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.centos.x86_64 and Netflix

By James Pearson at 02/09/2019 - 12:17

Bernard Lheureux:
I think this might be something to do with an incompatible 'Widevine' plugin for playing DRM content

See:

<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524830" title="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524830">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524830</a>

One workaround is detailed in Comment #5 :

<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524830#c5" title="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524830#c5">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524830#c5</a>

(I haven't tried this myself)

James Pearson

Re: firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.centos.x86_64 and Netflix

By Johnny Hughes v... at 02/09/2019 - 11:12

On Sat, 2019-02-09 at 15:10 +0100, Bernard Lheureux wrote:
Yep. It isn't just you. The Spotify webplayer stopped working for me
when I upgraded to firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.x86_64 on RHEL7.6 WS.

Downgrading to firefox-60.4.0-1.el7.x86_64 restored the ability to use
Spotify.

Re: firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.centos.x86_64 and Netflix

By Glenio Cortes Himmen at 02/09/2019 - 09:12

Install Google Chrome.

Em Sáb, 9 de fev de 2019 12:11, Bernard Lheureux <
bernard. ... at bbsoft4 dot org> escreveu:

Re: firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.centos.x86_64 and Netflix

By Bernard Lheureux at 02/09/2019 - 09:21

On 09/02/2019 15:12, Glênio Côrtes Himmen wrote:
Really not the answer I expect...
I hope a corrected version of Firefox will soon be released !