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And here I am heading towards Firefox from Chrome specifically because I can't watch DRM content in Chrome anymore (need silverlight to be able to watch GoT and

And here I am heading towards Firefox from Chrome specifically because I can't watch DRM content in Chrome anymore (need silverlight to be able to watch GoT and Comedy central)

hashmymustache 11y ago
Silverlight is needed just to add attachments to Outlook in the browser. I don't understand why there isn't a 64-bit version for chrome on mac.
- tehbeard 11y ago
  ...how? How do they fuck up that badly to need silverlight for attachments?
  - abandonliberty 11y ago
    It's likely part of their tech mandate. I suspect what advantages it may have were not a big driver in that decision. They have a vested interest in driving silverlight adoption and use.
    - mattmanser 11y ago
      Had. Silverlight is no longer improved.
      - voltagex_ 11y ago
        And yet it somehow gained huge popularity - http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/3556619-silverlight-6 http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studi...
- jmspring 11y ago
  Not true. Chrome does not support NPAPI and about:plugins does not show Silverlight installed. Sent an email to myself (at another address) just now with an attachment using Chrome from outlook.com. Did the same on the outlook web access client for an exchange server. Silverlight not needed. Not sure where you get your information. edit - specify that email is between different addresses.
  - hashmymustache 11y ago
    I don't know what to tell you. My school uses an exchange server and I can't add attachments to emails on the online portal unless I use the old lite version on Chrome whereas I can on other browsers.
cabalamat 11y ago
> need silverlight to be able to watch GoT No you don't. I've watched every episode of GoT, without having Silverlight installed (Does it even run on Linux? I've no idea).
- brandmeyer 11y ago
  I actually do have Netflix running via Silverlight on Firefox on Linux. Winodws Silverlight is running in Wine, with Pipelight to display the Windows plugin in the Linux Firefox (actually Iceweasel) process. Its emulators all the way down!
  - ac29 11y ago
    FYI Netflix works natively in chrome on linux, and has for a while. No need for hacky solutions like that anymore.
- oldmanjay 11y ago
  do you pay for them or torrent? many of us reject piracy, so it would be nice to understand this.

And here I am heading towards Firefox from Chrome specifically because I can't watch DRM content in Chrome anymore (need silverlight to be able to watch GoT and Comedy central)

hashmymustache 11y ago

Silverlight is needed just to add attachments to Outlook in the browser. I don't understand why there isn't a 64-bit version for chrome on mac.

tehbeard 11y ago
...how? How do they fuck up that badly to need silverlight for attachments?
- abandonliberty 11y ago
  It's likely part of their tech mandate. I suspect what advantages it may have were not a big driver in that decision. They have a vested interest in driving silverlight adoption and use.
  - mattmanser 11y ago
    Had. Silverlight is no longer improved.
    - voltagex_ 11y ago
      And yet it somehow gained huge popularity - http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/3556619-silverlight-6 http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studi...
jmspring 11y ago
Not true. Chrome does not support NPAPI and about:plugins does not show Silverlight installed. Sent an email to myself (at another address) just now with an attachment using Chrome from outlook.com. Did the same on the outlook web access client for an exchange server. Silverlight not needed. Not sure where you get your information. edit - specify that email is between different addresses.
- hashmymustache 11y ago
  I don't know what to tell you. My school uses an exchange server and I can't add attachments to emails on the online portal unless I use the old lite version on Chrome whereas I can on other browsers.

cabalamat 11y ago

> need silverlight to be able to watch GoT No you don't. I've watched every episode of GoT, without having Silverlight installed (Does it even run on Linux? I've no idea).

brandmeyer 11y ago
I actually do have Netflix running via Silverlight on Firefox on Linux. Winodws Silverlight is running in Wine, with Pipelight to display the Windows plugin in the Linux Firefox (actually Iceweasel) process. Its emulators all the way down!
- ac29 11y ago
  FYI Netflix works natively in chrome on linux, and has for a while. No need for hacky solutions like that anymore.
oldmanjay 11y ago
do you pay for them or torrent? many of us reject piracy, so it would be nice to understand this.