Netflix for mac osx mac os x#

In terminal issue the following command: open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app -args -user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh U Intel Mac OS X 10_5_3 en-us) AppleWebKit/525.1 9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.19' Tsk, tsk, tsk… sloppy programming Netflix!ĭownload ChromeFlix which launches your currently installed version of Chrome but makes it pretend to be Apple’s Safari.

Because of this, Chrome users get an apology instead of streaming movies. They are looking for the word SAFARI instead of looking for the word WEBKIT as an identifier in the browser’s user-agent. The official Netflix app for Windows10 lets you use your Netflix account to stream your favorite movies and TV series in HD straight to your computer. The program lies within Audio & Video Tools, more precisely General. This lets you watch Netflix in buttery smooth 1080p without hogging your CPU or draining your battery. Friendly for Netflix was developed to work on Mac OS X 10.6 or later. Apple implemented the Media Source Extensions (MSE) using their highly optimized video pipeline on OS X.

The Netflix geeks did a very bad job of detecting Watch Instantly capable browsers. Last year Netflix released video streaming in HTML5 in Safari on Yosemite to Save battery power and reduce processor usage. Google Chrome for the Mac is 100% capable of running Netflix Watch Instantly, but the web-geeks at Netflix are bad programmers. After all, it is using the same rendering engine as Safari, so it should just work, right? Netflix Watch Instantly should work fine in Google Chrome.