Netflix just stopped working, 'update your browser'

[moonbat]

Running latest Basilisk build, Netflix was working on it until just now when it says the browser isn't supported when clicking on a movie to play.

Current user agent is

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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0 Basilisk/52.9.2019.10.31

Anything else I can try? AFAIK this has nothing to do with the DRM, else it would have said so.

Edit - the web console says -

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Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at wss://push.prod.netflix.com/ws.  

[New Tobin Paradigm]

I can confirm this with Error Code: F7121-3078. They must have finally deactivated Widevine 1.4.9 support. I tried every trick I could think of but no dice. This may not have trickled down to all markets but US Netfix using Widevine 1.4.9 is down.

If you reset the user agent override back to what we provide as default and disable DRM it will fall back to Silverlight on Windows (likely Machintosh too) at least for the moment.

Otherwise, you will have to use one of the Chrome browsers or current-day Firefox. There is nothing to be done until Travis can complete the API update for Widevine x.10 (however their versioning scheme works at the moment).

As an aside, I don't know why you have opened up yet ANOTHER thread for this.. was the previous half-dozen not enough dude?

[Moonchild]

Hey, using Silverlight will give you better image quality anyway!

[moonbat]

As an aside, I don't know why you have opened up yet ANOTHER thread for this.. was the previous half-dozen not enough dude?

They were locked
And those were related to DRM, or asking why it doesn't work in Pale Moon where there's no DRM, rather than browser incompatibility.

Also isn't Silverlight Windows specific? I'm on Linux.

[billmcct]

Silverlight for Linux:
https://www.noobslab.com/2014/04/pipeli ... e-for.html

There are others also.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=silverlight+f ... =h_&ia=web

[moonbat]

Already seen that, Pipelights' repositories haven't worked in 2 years.