firefox emulating IE

[NoOp]

On 04/02/2009 06:16 AM, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> When I try to stream movies using netflix the website says you can only use
> IE.  Is there a way to fool the website into thinking FF is IE?  Or is there
> another Ubuntu compatible browser than can?
> 
> thanks
> 
> Gary
> 
> 

You can try spoofing (making Netflix think it's IE), however I don't
know if that will work if they rely on directx or some other IE specific
'feature'. I highly recommend prefbar:

http://prefbar.mozdev.org/

Also ies4linux (as others have mentioned) works pretty well for most IE
requirements.

http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page

Note: you still need to install wine & cabextract:

$ sudo apt-get install wine
[Note: make sure that you have universe repository enabled
(System|Administration|Synaptic...|Settings|Repositories|Ubuntu
Software|Community-maintained...)

$ sudo apt-get install cabextract

Then:
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Installation
$ wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
$ cd ies4linux-*
$ ./ies4linux

Might also be of interest:
<http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&q=netflix+%2Bfirefox&btnG=Google+Search>
<http://blog.netflix.com/2007/08/instant-watching-on-mac-firefox-and.html>

Then again... this doesn't look very promising:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=620640
[Netflix "Watch Now" on Linux]
and indicates that ies4linux doesn't work.

Maybe you can ask the guy in the netflix blog what the deal is with
linux... particularly since they sell a $100 Roku Netflix Player that
uses linux:

http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8633598605.html