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Netflix/Silverlight in Lion
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Not exactly.
You have to install the silverlight 5 beta developer runtime for mac:
http://www.silverlight.net/downloads
It crashes a lot.
You have to install the silverlight 5 beta developer runtime for mac:
http://www.silverlight.net/downloads
It crashes a lot.
I've yet to see a crash, or hold up on system performance using Netflix or silverlight in my MacBook Pro. Flash on the other hand is completely worthless on any OS. Had a kernel panic earlier today watching the MacBook Air boot comparison video via 9to5mac.com.
Did you do a clean install of Lion? If so, you will have to download Sliverlight and install it. It's not automatically on there since it's a MS product.
Hugh
I'm not sure if this is related, but when attempting to watch an online Silverlight video, the plugin crashed under Chrome, but worked in Safari.
When I went to the Microsoft Silverlight download page in Chrome, the site claimed that I was using an "unsupported" browser.
Macbook
I just downloaded OS X Lion on Friday and my Netflix wouldn't stream since then. I was so frustrated getting that "plug-in failure". The plug-in download works just fine for my Safari 5.
Good luck.
I just downloaded OS X Lion on Friday and my Netflix wouldn't stream since then. I was so frustrated getting that "plug-in failure". The plug-in download works just fine for my Safari 5.
Good luck.
Lion Killed Safari Siverlight...
I upgraded to Lion today. Netflix no longer works when using Safari 5. I am getting the plugin failure message. However Netflix streaming works in Firefox 5.0.1.
Running on a 2010 Macbook Pro
I upgraded to Lion today. Netflix no longer works when using Safari 5. I am getting the plugin failure message. However Netflix streaming works in Firefox 5.0.1.
Running on a 2010 Macbook Pro
Netflix is actually working better than ever and playing HD video very cleanly...which I had not experienced on the browser version yet.
Update! It works!!
I started tooling around on Microsoft's Silverlight website and landed here: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/case-studies/default.aspx?view=1&feature=Media
While the page was loading I was informed that I needed a newer version of Silverlight in order for the page to work (opening Silverlight via Applications yielded no information about a new version being available). Netflix now streams just fine in both Safari and Firefox.
I started tooling around on Microsoft's Silverlight website and landed here: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/case-studies/default.aspx?view=1&feature=Media
While the page was loading I was informed that I needed a newer version of Silverlight in order for the page to work (opening Silverlight via Applications yielded no information about a new version being available). Netflix now streams just fine in both Safari and Firefox.
Update
All I had to do was update my Silverlight through Microsoft, restart my browser (Safari) and things went swimmingly.
All I had to do was update my Silverlight through Microsoft, restart my browser (Safari) and things went swimmingly.
I opened a movie in netflix, it asked me to install silverlight I said ok, movie played.