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Netflix subscribers will be happy to wave goodbye to Silverlight

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If there’s one annoyance pretty much every Netflix subscriber has experienced at least once, it’s an error message asking you to call Netflix – the usual solution to which is to remove and reinstall Microsoft Silverlight.

When Apple announced during the WWDC keynote that the new version of Safari supplied with OS X Yosemite would be using HTML5 for streaming video, Netflix was mentioned as an example. Netflix has now confirmed that it will be consigning Silverlight to the wastebin – where it belongs.

Other browsers will still use Silverlight for now, but Netflix says it hopes to move to HTML5 in other browsers further down the road.

Apple and Netflix have both said that subscribers should also see two hours extra battery-life when streaming HD movies from the service.

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  1. Dieter von Bödefeld - 10 years ago

    What about facebook?

    • Mads Y (@baekalfen) - 10 years ago

      What about it?

      • Dieter von Bödefeld - 10 years ago

        What about the Videos in the Newsfeed? Will they finally stream in HTML5 or do i still need flash?

      • Justin Houser - 10 years ago

        Since when does anyone want to see any video in the Facebook Newsfeed? Like most Flash content: it’s a battery killer and a waste of time. Are there exceptions? Sure.

  2. Robert Nixon - 10 years ago

    Good riddance to proprietary plugins for video playback.

  3. vtcajones - 10 years ago

    I’ve been watching Netflix quite a bit on the new Safari and have to say, it really does perform well. It looks better, plays faster, and buffers less.

  4. Good riddance! That crap crashed my computer several time! 95% of the times my Mac crashed, it was running Mi¢ro$oft software.

  5. Patrick Shawn Skeetman - 7 years ago

    Justin Houser I still watch videos in the newsfeed, and I don’t use a laptop either I use a desktop.

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