Got Netflix working again with Firefox 50. I had to adjust the User Agent (using "User-Agent Switcher" plug-in) to: Linux / Chrome 53: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.34 Safari/537.36
And I do not need the "export MOZ_DISABLE_GMP_SANDBOX=1" workaround anymore, which helped to avoid a crash with 49.0.2. when widevine was started (after Ubuntu 16.10 upgrade). I guess this issue was related to problem described here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1638719 Title: Widevine crashes on Firefox 49.0.2 and Ubuntu 16.10 Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After upgrading to Ubuntu 16.10 the Widevine plugin of Firefox crashes when trying to watch a video, while Widevine works fine in Chrome. Before upgrading it worked without problems with the same Firefox version. So I assume there is some conflict with Ubuntu. This happens on all my three devices. I logged into guest mode and tried it there, but same problem occurs. One of some crash reports I sent with Firefox: https://crash- stats.mozilla.com/report/index/088a0c5c-5509-423b-8347-6ed842161022 #tab-details Bug Report on Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1315934 My corresponding question on askubuntu: http://askubuntu.com/questions/840511/firefox-widevine-plugin-crashes- immediately-after-upgrade-to-ubuntu-16-10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1638719/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
