Open rxhfcy opened 8 months ago
For anyone else wondering what Firefox plug-in is required:
User-Agent Switcher and Manager
Change the user-agent to ChromeOS and it should work. It also supports white-listing / black-listing sites.
I ran the installer script and installed and set the User-Agent extension to ChromeOS. On Netflix, I'm getting an error "Please visit chrome://settings/content/protectedContent and make sure "Sites can play protected content" is enabled.
Obviously this is in firefox so I'm at a dead end. Any suggestions on how to get around this?
UPDATE: I realized that this script is geared for Asahi Linux and I'm using Debian. I was able to get things running after using this script and the directions laid out here.
After using
sudo widevine-installer,
the user currently needs to:After trying several alternatives, I was unable to find an add-on/extension that worked exactly how I wanted, but was at least able to find one that worked "well enough" after some manual fiddling (i.e. Netflix started working). Which is of course great already!
Suggestion
Ideally, I would have wanted
sudo widevine-installer
to "just work", i.e. make as many "Widevine sites" as possible (e.g. Netflix) work automatically:If automatic browser add-on/extension installation and configuration is not possible, at least it would have been even better "customer service" to: