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vladikoff / netflix-1080p-firefox

🍿 Force 1080p Netflix playback in Firefox
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Doesn’t work with user agent above Firefox/57.0 #8

Closed lukasfink1 closed 5 years ago

lukasfink1 commented 6 years ago

The plugin doesn’t work with newer user agents. To be more specific my user agent is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0. I tried different agents and the latest version that seems to work is 57 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0). The same applies to Windows user agents: These also work only until version 57.

fosspill commented 6 years ago

This.. This is really weird.. I was wondering why it stopped working, and this is indeed the solution.

What the fuck.

about:config Create new string: general.useragent.override Set to: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0

You can also use this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/ And set your user agent to FF 55. Works fine too.

saftle commented 6 years ago

I can confirm that the addon sadly no longer works. Also, if I enter the user agent in manually via about:config or via the user agent string switcher addon, Netflix instead shows an error and doesn't load the video.

It appears the chrome addon that the firefox addon is based on works and has been updated recently.

Termuellinator commented 6 years ago

Just discovered this addon - can confirm that it (at least mostly) works with user agent for version 57. Don't know if the cases where i get only 480p are a fault of this addon or Netflix-BS ^^

lukasfink1 commented 6 years ago

These are because of Netflix. I think the copyright holders don’t allow them to be transmitted without HDCP over to the display and the DRM system Firefox uses doesn’t support HDCP. At least this is the case with many Blu-Rays when the TV doesn’t support HDCP. So I guess it’s the same reason here. Netflix themselves enforce HDCP only for 4K.

fosspill commented 6 years ago

lukas, that makes little sense in this issue. The problem is that user agent has to be set to firefox 57 for this plugin to work. I don't think that's related to HDCP.

Termuellinator commented 6 years ago

i think lukas is adressing my 480p-issue...and for that his explanation makes perfect sense, so thank you :)

informatorius commented 5 years ago

Fixed in latest version, can be closed