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is Microsoft Silverlight "bad"?

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isethx

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i recently got netflix and it requires Microsoft Silverlight. I've heard a lot of bad things about it interfering with other video watching programs and it being hard to fully remove and etc

is this true, even worth installing?
 
isethx said:
i recently got netflix and it requires Microsoft Silverlight. I've heard a lot of bad things about it interfering with other video watching programs and it being hard to fully remove and etc

is this true, even worth installing?
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On a site like MacRumors.com, every problem that Mac users have and many that we don't have are reported and discussed til the cows come home. Your post is the first that I have ever heard of Silverlight problem.

I have Silverlight installed on all of my Macs. I have seen no hint of a problem caused by it. I am at a lost how it could conflict with other media content.
 
I have been using it for the past 5 months myself. I watch tons of stuff online, because we dont have TV (not cable in each case) so I watch NCIS and some other stuff online 🙂

Never had issues with other programs I run, and I run a lot of other sound/video programs!

go for it!
 
mikeyredk said:
Major League baseball thinks so they switched to flash
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Oh, and since when do we depend on the MLB for good multimedia platform decisions? 😀

Honestly, MacRumors users here constantly say Microsoft products are dumb, but they really aren't. I don't mind Silverlight one bit.
 
Silverlight is far less resource-hungry than Flash. I actually prefer it on Mac.

I've only had one problem with Silverlight. Sometimes a Netflix video won't load so you have to right click on the video and then bring up Silverlight preferences to clear the cache. Once you do that and restart your browser everything is fine.
 
isethx said:
So if I wanted to uninstall iit's easy to and leaves no files behind?
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Close your browser and open Terminal; then type this:
Code: 
rm -rf /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/Silverlight.plugin
rm -rf /Library/Receipts/Silverlight*.pkg
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Silverlight

Just to be clear you type one line at a time and press return after each line.
 
I installed Silverlight to view programs with the ITV Player (www.itv.com). It stutters every 2 minutes 😡 as if it isn't caching the stream and so the slightest disruption is killing the picture. Unfortunately, there is no way to alter the cache in the preferences to test this hypothesis 😡

However, I have noticed that reinstalling Silverlight makes the problem disappear... until the next new connection 😡😡. I'm not going to reinstall Silverlight every time I want to watch a different program on ITV thank you 😡😡. The whole thing makes me so 😡😡😡.

My PC friends have the same problem. It might be Silverlight or it could just be the ITV Player. Either way, it has been very 😡😡😡ing trying to watch anything on catchup.

I have a 10 megabit internet connection and BBC's iPlayer manages to stream HD content without problem. Which is very 🙂😎

[it's OK, I've calmed down now. Quite chilled. Really.]
 
Silverlight is more crap from the bull that is Microsoft. I wish they would keep their fingers out of more pies. 😡

MS has a bad rep with ActiveX and their other internet protocol/standard disasters, but Silverlight so far seems... tolerable.

Contact Netflix and complain.
 
After using Silverlight since Netflix first started streaming I finally started having this issue. I'm not sure what to do and I'm getting frustrated because Netflix/Silverlight was my one solution to film/television when Hulu/Flash was acting up.

Now Flash and Silverlight are beginning to act the same way. What's interesting is never before has Silverlight kicked on my fans like flash does; again now they are the same.
 
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