ubuntu 14.04 wont play amazon prime videos in fierfox anymore

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Before last update it worked. Now I get a "unsupported browser" message.

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 22 '15 at 12:49

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It Looks like they want html5 player and that is not available for firefox:

edited Oct 22 '15 at 12:49

Rinzwind

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answered Oct 22 '15 at 12:44

Peter

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 21 '15 at 11:43

You can switch to Google Chrome (not Chromium, since it doesn't include the Widevine content decryption plugin) and use native HTML5 player to watch prime videos. The only downside is you can't manually set the video quality to HD, but it's auto-set by determining your bandwidth.

FYI: I didn't update anything and it stopped working for me with the same message on 2015/10/21 (Arch Linux, FF 41.0.2).

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 22 '15 at 13:26

After contacting Amazon, I was informed that since October 20 they no longer support Flash. They recommended installing Chrome (not Chromium), which will run the HTML5 player. That "solution" is working for me. Their support told me that currently no solution is available if you want to use Firefox in Ubuntu.

ubuntu 14.04 wont play amazon prime videos in fierfox anymore

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