Netflix in Pale Moon on Linux

[bgstack15]

I swear a few months ago I could watch netflix in Pale Moon (would have been 27.6.x) on Fedora 27 GNU/Linux. But now, Netflix throws an error. I am still having problems, and I was wondering a few things.

1. Does setting the useragent.override value for say, general.useragent.override.ix.nflxvideo.net apply to all of the subdomains of ix.nflxvideo.net (e.g., ipv4_1.mce0.c068.was001.ix.nflxvideo.net) and the rest?
2. Is there an easier way to configure many url user agent overrides without restarting palemoon? I see a prefs.js with a function that resembles the following

user_pref("general.useragent.override.ix.nflxvideo.net", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0");

I would think that manually manipulating that file while Pale Moon is running is a bad idea.
3. Is there a better user agent to use, than my official firefox build one, captured by the F12 developer tools in firefox? Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0

Regarding video playback of Netflix, the menu does allow video previews of the shows/movies when I hover over them. And watching trailers works, so obviously the technical ability is there. But netflix insists on throwing errors, saying I need to use an official mozilla build of firefox. I don't wanna use Firefox for netflix; I want to use Pale Moon!

edit: for those who are interested, I've captured some traffic.

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sudo tcpdump -i eno1 ! port 22 and ! port 123 and ! port 53 and ! arp and ! port ssdp and ! port nfs and ! port mdns and ! port bootps and ! port mdns | tee -a ~/log/tcpdump.firefox.1 ;
awk '{ print $3,$5; }' ~/log/tcpdump.firefox.1 | sed -r -e 's/\.[0-9\:]{4,6}(\s|$)/ /g;' -e 's/\.https:?//g;' | sed -r -e 's/ltb-013.ipa.example.com//;' -e 's/^\s*//;' -e 's/\s*$//;' | sort | uniq

And come up with this cleaned up list of domains it is talking to:

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a23-36-68-93.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com
anycast.ftl.netflix.com
ec2-52-1-105-122.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-52-201-17-165.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-52-45-244-48.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-52-54-154-226.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ipv4_1.lagg0.c006.was001.ix.nflxvideo.net
ipv4_1.lagg0.c013.was001.ix.nflxvideo.net
ipv4_1.lagg0.c020.was001.ix.nflxvideo.net
ipv4_1.lagg0.c051.was001.ix.nflxvideo.net
ipv4_1.mce0.c068.was001.ix.nflxvideo.net
ipv4_1.mce0.c110.was001.ix.nflxvideo.net
ipv4_1.mce0.c116.was001.ix.nflxvideo.net
yb-in-f101.1e100.net
yb-in-f113.1e100.net
yb-in-f113.1e100.net
yb-in-f138.1e100.net
yb-in-f17.1e100.net
yb-in-f189.1e100.net