This means, basically, that Firefox users can watch videos on Amazon without Silverlight installed. Amazon Prime Video without Silverlight in FirefoxĪmazon Prime Video requires Microsoft Silverlight, or Google Widevine CDM, and will only stream video content to browsers that support at least one of the technologies.įirefox users up until now had to have Microsoft Silverlight installed to watch videos on Amazon, but that is no longer necessary in Firefox 47 thanks to the integration of Widevine in the browser. Part of the HTML5 specification supports digital rights management enforcement for streams, and many services such as Amazon Prime Video or Netflix require those to stream content to the browser.įirefox supported the Adobe Primetime Content Decryption Module since version 38, and Mozilla has just added support for Google's Widevine CDM in Firefox 47. HTML5 is not enough on its own when it comes to watching content offered by commercial video services though as they require DRM on top of that. These technologies are for the most part replaced by HTML5 which all modern browser support out of the box. This old architecture enables support for Flash, Java, Silverlight and other plugins in the browser so that web services can make use of them, for instance to stream video to the browser. ![]() Google actually blocked these types of plugins already in Chrome, and Microsoft did the same for them in the company's new Edge browser. Mozilla, just like Google and Microsoft, plans to remove support for so-called NPAPI plugins in Firefox.
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