Netflix and Spotify do not work with Firefox

[zmdismai]

Description We are not able to watch Netflix or listen to song on Spotify with Firefox.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Boot up Live Desktop image
2. Install Clear Linux
3. Open Firefox from the left side of the desktop
4. Netflix: a) Go to www.netflix.com/login b) Log in to your account c) Play any movie or TV series
5. Spotify: a) Go to https://open.spotify.com/browse b) Log in to your account c) Play any song

Current behavior

For Netflix, it shows the error below:

For Spotify, we just cannot play any song. When we click the play icon, nothing happens.

Expected behavior Video should play without issue on Netflix and song should play without issue on Spotify.

Environment:

• Clear Linux OS version: [cat /usr/lib/os-release] NAME="Clear Linux OS" VERSION=1 ID=clear-linux-os ID_LIKE=clear-linux-os VERSION_ID=29160 PRETTY_NAME="Clear Linux OS" ANSI_COLOR="1;35" HOME_URL="https://clearlinux.org" SUPPORT_URL="https://clearlinux.org" BUG_REPORT_URL="mailto:dev@lists.clearlinux.org" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="http://www.intel.com/privacy"

• Bundles: [e.g. sudo swupd bundle-list] NetworkManager acpica-unix2 alsa-utils ansible baobab bc binutils bison bootloader c-basic cheese cloc clr-network-troubleshooter containers-basic cpio cronie cryptography curl darktable desktop desktop-apps desktop-assets desktop-autostart desktop-gnomelibs desktop-kde-libs desktop-locales dev-utils devpkg-base devpkg-llvm diffutils dnf docutils dpdk education-preschool eog ethtool evince evolution file file-roller findutils firefox flatpak flex fonts-basic fuse games gdb geany gedit gimp git gjs glibc-locale glmark2 gnome-base-libs gnome-calculator gnome-characters gnome-color-manager gnome-disk-utility gnome-font-viewer gnome-logs gnome-music gnome-photos gnome-screenshot gnome-system-monitor gnome-todo gnome-weather graphviz gstreamer gvim gzip hardware-printing hardware-uefi hexchat htop icdiff inotify-tools iperf ipmitool iproute2 iptables kbd kde-frameworks5 kernel-install kernel-native less lib-imageformat lib-opengl lib-openssl lib-samba libX11client libglib libstdcpp libva-utils linux-firmware linux-firmware-extras linux-firmware-wifi linux-tools llvm make man-pages meld minetest minetestserver minicom nasm nautilus net-tools network-basic openblas openldap openssh-server openssl openvswitch os-core os-core-legacy os-core-update os-core-webproxy os-utils-gui p11-kit package-utils parallel patch perl-basic polkit powertop procps-ng pulseaudio pygobject python2-basic python3-basic qemu-guest-additions qt-basic qt-core seahorse software-defined-cockpit strace sudo sysadmin-basic syslinux telemetrics texinfo thermal_daemon thunderbird tigervnc tmux totem tzdata unzip v4l-utils valgrind vim virt-viewer vlc vnc-server webkitgtk wget which wpa_supplicant x11-server x11vnc xemacs xfce4-desktop xz znc zstd

Additional Context Based on these two sources: 1) Netflix: https://itsfoss.com/netflix-firefox-linux/ 2) Spotify: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Partners-Web-Player-etc/Spotify-in-Firefox-Doesn-t-work/td-p/1669454

For Netflix/Spotify to work on Firefox on Linux, Playing DRM content should be enabled and certain plugins should be Always Activate. Here are the settings from my Firefox:

[ahkok]

This is a known limitation, just like the totem issue, and essentially the same feature.

This is planned to be resolved, but, this will take time, and not something we can fix in a few weeks time.