
Just press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. Turn GPU acceleration on for Nouveau and Tungsten Graphics drivers.įor Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 10.04, Linux Mint and their derivatives, Netflix Desktop can be easily installed from PPA.Blacklisted hardware acceleration for nVidia driver 310.44.
Updated Silverlight 5.1 to include the fix for MS13-087. Other great apps like Microsoft Silverlight are KoolMoves. Its not free, so if youre looking for a free alternative, you could try OpenSilver or Ceylon. Fixed xattr python script on newer Ubuntu releases. There are six alternatives to Microsoft Silverlight for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Self-Hosted solutions and JavaScript. In a not very technical nutshell, a Silverlight application starts as a Windows process which runs officially supported Silverlight 5.1 through patched Wine. Added a workaround for Wine Bug #35181. Updated the British English, French, Uyghur, Turkish translations. Fixed a problem with missing download files. Fixed a mistake in the wine-mpg2splt-installer installation script. Netflix Desktop 0.8.7 gets below changes: The project package also includes some convience settings to integrate Netflix into Firefox in such a way that everything feels like a native Ubuntu application.
This release works around a problem with upstream Wine 1.7.9, it is highly recommended that anyone working off of the latest Wine also upgrade Netflix Desktop.Īs you may know, Netflix Desktop provides a convient tool that downloads and installs all of the components necessary to run Netflix Watch Instantly under Wine, including the Windows version of Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Silverlight. Netflix Desktop app for Ubuntu Linux now is at 0.8.7.