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No more Flash for Firefox on Linux

Posted Feb 24, 2012 2:06 UTC (Fri) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877)
Parent article: No more Flash for Firefox on Linux

As much as I'd love for Flash to die, at least I can stream Hulu and Amazon with it. Netflix refuses to support Linux.

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Posted Feb 24, 2012 7:42 UTC (Fri) by luya (subscriber, #50741) [Link]

Netflix will soon regret that decision when a rival supporting Linux will outclass it.

No more Flash for Firefox on Linux

Posted Mar 16, 2013 17:57 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

Netflix will soon regret that decision [not to work on Linux] when a rival supporting Linux will outclass it.

Netflix's rival will reach the same conclusion as Netflix: few people use Netflix on a desktop computer and hardly anybody has a Linux desktop computer and it costs money to develop and maintain Linux capability.

The best thing that could happen to Netflix is that its rivals spend more money than they make on something.

No more Flash for Firefox on Linux

Posted Feb 27, 2012 18:54 UTC (Mon) by eklitzke (subscriber, #36426) [Link]

There's actually an HTML5 "DRM" API being proposed right now by Google, Microsoft, and Netflix. I don't really know the details, but the idea is that they want to make it possible to encrypted video/audio streaming. Incidentally, this type of feature is primarily why a lot of other sites that stream copyrighted content (e.g. Pandora, Rdio) are also "stuck" on Flash.

There are a lot of open questions about whether or not the proposal will be accepted by the web standards community (as you might imagine there's a lot of resistance), but it seems like this could be the death knell of Flash.