14.02 up-rev NSS lib so Netflix can play

[Marc Deslauriers]

Hi Paul,

This morning NSS was updated to 3.17 in all supported version of Ubuntu.

I can confirm that presently all that is required to watch Netflix in Chrome is
a User-Agent change.

Thanks,

Marc.

/me goes back to watching "The Killing".


On 14-09-18 08:00 PM, Paul Adolph wrote:
> That's great news. If both 14.10 and 14.02 have a recent (> 3.16.2)
> version of NSS, I can make a case here to lift the User-Agent
> filtering which will make Netflix HTML5 play in Chrome turnkey with no
> hacks required. So please let me know when you get around to it.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Marc Deslauriers
> <marc.deslauriers at canonical.com> wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> On 14-09-18 06:43 PM, Paul Adolph wrote:
>>> Netflix will play with Chrome stable in 14.02 if NSS version 3.16.2 or
>>> greater is installed. If this version is generally installed across
>>> 14.02, Netflix would be able to make a change so users would no longer
>>> have to hack their User-Agent to play.
>>>
>>> What is the process of getting a new NSS version into the update
>>> stream? Or can somebody please provide me with the right contact?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> -Paul from Netflix
>>>
>>
>> I was planning on bumping nss to 3.17 in the stable releases as a security
>> update the next time a security issue needs to be fixed, or to update the
>> bundled CA certificate list.
>>
>> I'm not sure when that is going to be, but I might take a look at it next week
>> since it hasn't been updated in a while and a bunch of 1024-bit CA certs got
>> removed recently.
>>
>> Marc.
>>
>>
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