Re: Netflix SM 2.39

[David E. Ross]

On 2/18/2016 9:11 PM, John Duncan wrote:
> mscir wrote:
>> Johathan's UA spoof fix worked for me too, thanks!
>>
>>
> If you don't want to spoof your entire UA for every website you visit, 
> I've been using (in about:config):
> 
> general.useragent.override.netflix.com
> 
> with
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 
> Firefox/42.0
> 
> which simply overrides the user agent for that one specific website. 
> tested and works in SM 2.39, if anyone else is wondering.
> 

For me, the easiest way to spoof other browsers is via the PrefBar
extension from
.  It has a
User Agent menulist for selecting the user agent (UA) string for what
other browser you want to spoof.  If you forget to restore the SeaMonkey
UA string, this is done automatically when you terminate and then
relaunch SeaMonkey.

The only problem is that the UA strings do not update automatically.
About once a month or two, I check the UA strings seen in visits to my
own Web site via a tool provided by my Web host.  From that, I manually
update the UA strings in PrefBar's User Agent menulist.

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Re: Netflix SM 2.39

[Daniel]

On 21/02/2016 5:00 AM, John Duncan wrote:

Daniel wrote:

On 19/02/2016 4:11 PM, John Duncan wrote:

mscir wrote:

Johathan's UA spoof fix worked for me too, thanks!



If you don't want to spoof your entire UA for every website you visit,
I've been using (in about:config):

general.useragent.override.netflix.com

with

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/42.0

which simply overrides the user agent for that one specific website.
tested and works in SM 2.39, if anyone else is wondering.


Rather than make a specific spoof for netflix, would using the
"Advertise Firefox compatibility" work??
(Edit->Preferences->Advanced->HTTP Networking)


I have that feature enabled in my profile, and it did not work. I
believe it is because the Lightning calendar extension appends itself to
the end of your UA, and netflix does not see the string it is looking
for. The solution I posted above seems to be the best solution I've
found. The only downside is you'll probably need to update it every time
you update SM..


O.K., sorry for the noise! :-)

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Daniel

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 
SeaMonkey/2.39 Build identifier: 20151028234211

or
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 
SeaMonkey/2.38 Build identifier: 20150903203501

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Re: Netflix SM 2.39

[nate . riggle]

Work for me, too. Thanks!
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Re: Netflix SM 2.39

[sumrall . t . m]

Thank you SO much, Jonathan. I was having the same issue as Ari above, and you 
fixed me right up.
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Re: Netflix SM 2.39

[Jonathan N. Little]

Ari Hansson wrote:

Den lördag 14 november 2015 kl. 02:54:06 UTC+1 skrev BL:

Since SeaMonkey update to 2.39 I have problem with Netflix. Movie
selection loads normally but playback stays at black screen and no
sound. I reinstalled Silverlight but problem remains. Netflix plays
normally on FF and IE.Any ideas??
Thank You  BL


I've run into the same thing, and when I tried to watch Jessica Jones about 10 
minutes ago, I just get redirected to the Netflix system requirement page.



The issue is with Netflix not SeaMonkey. Just a common issue pf stupid 
agentagent sniffing instead of proper object detection to determine 
browser requirement. The scourge of poor web development.  You can see 
for yourself


Go to about:config

Right-click and create new string key
general.useragent.override
enter value of
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0

Restart browser and try netflix and lo and behold it works.

You can install a userangent string extension, I was just using this a 
demo. Best thing is to complain to Netflix support and demand that the 
properly develop their site. If enough folks complain we may not have to 
endure the "shame" of not using the browser with the approved name.


I did my part. I called them.

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Re: Netflix SM 2.39

[Ari Hansson]

Den lördag 14 november 2015 kl. 02:54:06 UTC+1 skrev BL:
> Since SeaMonkey update to 2.39 I have problem with Netflix. Movie 
> selection loads normally but playback stays at black screen and no 
> sound. I reinstalled Silverlight but problem remains. Netflix plays 
> normally on FF and IE.Any ideas??
> Thank You  BL

I've run into the same thing, and when I tried to watch Jessica Jones about 10 
minutes ago, I just get redirected to the Netflix system requirement page.
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Re: Netflix SM 2.39

[John Duncan]

BL wrote:

Since SeaMonkey update to 2.39 I have problem with Netflix. Movie
selection loads normally but playback stays at black screen and no
sound. I reinstalled Silverlight but problem remains. Netflix plays
normally on FF and IE.Any ideas??
Thank You  BL
Same here! Using Silverlight 5.1.40728.0 on OS X 10.11.2 - I get a black 
screen. Seems as if that is one of the few regressions that have 
happened on 2.39.


Other ones I can think of off the top of my head - the searchbar for the 
bookmarks window (command+b / ctrl+b) is no longer visible. It is still 
visible in the XUL 
(chrome://communicator/content/bookmarks/bm-panel.xul) 
(chrome://communicator/content/bookmarks/bookmarksManager.xul) and 
sidebar, so I'm assuming this is a regression specific to that window 
type or something. Also seems as if the close button in the sidebar no 
longer highlights when dragging the mouse over it (this could be a 
problem with my theme though).


about:support does display with the color of the system highlight color 
on OS X anymore (this has been broken since around 2.33.1 or so I believe).


the current version of the lightning calendar add-on is broken in terms 
of the toolbar icons (none show - I remember this happening to the 
nightly version around August of this year). Release version affected is 
4.4b2 for SM 2.39 release.


Also I'm not sure if this is just me or not, but the default SeaMonkey 
theme does not seem to have any grippies for quickly collapsing 
toolbars, and I have found no discernible way to show the Bookmarks 
Toolbar or Website Navigation Bar with the default theme activated in a 
browser window. (not sure how long this has affected my install - could 
be one of the changes in my userChrome.css that I could troubleshoot, 
but I don't think it is..)


I'm also not sure what has caused this, but I remember when I was using 
2.39 nightly (I think?) running https://html5test.com/ would return a 
score of 509, and it now returns 501 on my machine. "Speech 
Recognition," and "Pointer Events" both used to register as "Yes" but 
are no longer found on the 2.39 release version.

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