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AFAIK wine is still needed for a bunch of old app: I have installed ubuntu on the computer of my old parents. Wine was mandatory to use powerpoint viewer. Per

by webreac 11y ago

AFAIK wine is still needed for a bunch of old app: I have installed ubuntu on the computer of my old parents. Wine was mandatory to use powerpoint viewer. Personally, I need the windows version of firefox to watch catchup TV (DRM protected using flash).

rashkov 11y ago
Doesn't Firefox support drm across the board now? Chrome as well? If the site complains you can try changing the user agent string to fool it into thinking that you're running on Windows.
- greggyb 11y ago
  Firefox only supports DRM on Windows. I hadn't thought to use WINE for a Windows install of Firefox on Linux. Chrome's DRM support is cross-platform, but only in Google Chrome, not Chromium, which can complicate the installation depending on your platform/OS.
  - jhasse 11y ago
    Have you tried the hal daemon? I'm running Firefox on Linux and after setting it up, DRM content with Flash works.
    - greggyb 11y ago
      I hadn't seen that before. Looks like it covers the Flash side only based on some quick reading and your comment. Any word on e.g. Netflix support for Firefox on Linux/BSD? Google Chrome bundles the DRM components with the browser, so as long as you can consume the .deb or .rpm package you're good. Firefox recently introduced HTML5 DRM support[0] but it's only on Windows. I know they're looking to support other operating systems, but haven't heard anything. [0] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/17/firefox-users-can-now-watch-netflix-html5-video-on-windows/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/17/firefox-users-can-n...
      - jhasse 11y ago
        Ah I see. I guess there's no support for HTML5 DRM yet.