Netflix supports Ubuntu out-of-the-box

Netflix supports Ubuntu in combination with Google Chrome now out-of-the-box. To this end, html5-video streams with drm. Until now had users perform some actions for Netflix streams to be able to look.

Netflix has support for Chrome in combination with Ubuntu silently switched on, report users on Reddit. It is not yet clear how it is with other Linux distributions. However, it is certain that Ubuntu with Firefox by default is not supported yet.

Until now allowed users to Netflix streams look, but then they had to manually create a library upgrade that was used for the digital rights management protection of the streams. Moreover, they had their user-agent spoof. That is now no longer necessary: the new version of the library is at the insistence of Netflix now present by default in the Ubuntu repository, and the user-agent from Chrome on Ubuntu is Netflix added to the list of supported browsers.

Long time users of Ubuntu and other Linux distros only to Netflix watch using Wine, which allows Windows software on Linux can be rotated. That was because of Netflix in the browser only Silverlight supported; although a Linux implementation, is not suitable for Netflix video to play.

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