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I was trying out some browsers on my frugal install.

Must of them take up way too much room in XenialPup64.

I even tried Firefox, thinking it would not take up so much
ram space.

I was wrong!

But while I had it install, I thought I would try the Netflix test video.

In Firefox preferences,I ticked the DRM box.

No luck in getting it to play the test video.

Basilisk seems to take up approximately the same amount as Pale Moon.

Has anyone have any luck in getting basilisk to play the Netflix test
video?

@ Lassar:-

I'm afraid this won't work in a month of Sundays.

Basilisk is produced by the Moonchild Productions team.....the same folks who bring you Palemoon. They switched away from the 'modern' Mozilla/Firefox codebase quite some time ago, and now use the UXP code - the Unified XUL Platform.

Moonchild Productions have made it crystal clear that they will NEVER support DRM code in their browsers. And without that, NetFlix won't work.....in Palemoon or Basilisk.

Unfortunate, but true. Modern web browsers are the RAM-hogs of any modern OS.....in large part, caused by the need to protect users against all the crap out there on t' net. Since the demise of the QT Web browser, with the exception of text-only versions, there just is no such thing as a 'light' GUI-powered browser any more.....


Mike.

From Filehorse on Basilisk

v2019.09.03 Published 2019-09-03
This is a development, bugfix and security release. Please note that Google Widevine DRM might currently not work in new installations due to Google's licensing model.

Looks like it might not support DRM, but not for lack of trying.

I guess I will have subscribe to Disney Plus.

I have read there is a kodi addon for it.

If you are using XenialPup64 7.5

Here is a kodi sfs package for it.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... x86_64.sfs

about firefox and netflix, I wanted to test the playback of a video at this moment and it's not possible anymore so that's one of the things I tried after starting bionicpup and it worked.
So I started firefox from the shell with the command firefox -p and created a new profile and with this new profile it works. I will have to investigate to understand why the initial profile is not compatible with netflix anymore.

Looks like developers of open source browsers are out of luck.

Found this article:

Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it's no longer possible to make a functional indie browser