Netflix with Prism
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TrevorGerzen
Sep 24, 2009, 7:06:37 PM9/24/09
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I'm not a developer. I'm just a guy that wants to use Prism for
watching Netflix movies via their website but Netflix is saying that I
can't because my browser isn't supported. Any suggestions?
watching Netflix movies via their website but Netflix is saying that I
can't because my browser isn't supported. Any suggestions?
Jason Miller
Sep 25, 2009, 12:59:45 PM9/25/09
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Find your prefs.js file (the location varies by Operating System), and add the following line:
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3");
If you are on a Mac, the file is in:
/home/[your username]/Library/Application Support/[application name]/Profiles/[your profile]/prefs.js
cheers.
- Jason
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3");
If you are on a Mac, the file is in:
/home/[your username]/Library/Application Support/[application name]/Profiles/[your profile]/prefs.js
cheers.
- Jason
Jason Miller
519.872.0797 // developIT // Jason Miller Design
Developer of amoebaOS, Shutterborg, Delitweet & more
TrevorGerzen
Sep 25, 2009, 2:57:10 PM9/25/09
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Thanks. That worked like a charm ;)
Do you know why it wouldn't be recognized as a compatible browser "out
of the box"?
On Sep 25, 9:59 am, Jason Miller <ja...@developit.ca> wrote:
> Find your *prefs.js* file (the location varies by Operating System), and add
> Design<http://jasonmillerdesign.com/>
> *Developer of amoebaOS <https://amoebaos.com/>,
> Shutterborg<http://shutterb.org/>,
> Delitweet <http://delitweet.com/> & more*
Do you know why it wouldn't be recognized as a compatible browser "out
of the box"?
On Sep 25, 9:59 am, Jason Miller <ja...@developit.ca> wrote:
> Find your *prefs.js* file (the location varies by Operating System), and add
> the following line:
>
> user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel
> Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3");
>
> If you are on a Mac, the file is in:
> /home/[your username]/Library/Application Support/[application name]
> /Profiles/[your profile]/prefs.js
>
> cheers.
> - Jason
>
> Jason Miller
> 519.872.0797 // developIT <http://developit.ca/> // Jason Miller
>
> user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel
> Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3");
>
> If you are on a Mac, the file is in:
> /home/[your username]/Library/Application Support/[application name]
> /Profiles/[your profile]/prefs.js
>
> cheers.
> - Jason
>
> Jason Miller
> Design<http://jasonmillerdesign.com/>
> *Developer of amoebaOS <https://amoebaos.com/>,
> Shutterborg<http://shutterb.org/>,
> Delitweet <http://delitweet.com/> & more*
Jason Miller
Sep 25, 2009, 3:09:21 PM9/25/09
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Netflix just looks for Firefox, Safari and IE, and if the user agent string doesn't contain one of those, it tells you it wont work (even though it most likely would work). The default user-agent for Prism is different from that of Firefox so that applications can tell if they are running in Prism or not.
| Jason Miller |
519.872.0797 // developIT // Jason Miller Design Developer of amoebaOS, Shutterborg, Delitweet & more |
On Fri Sep 25 2009 14:57:10 GMT-0400 (EST), TrevorGerzen wrote:
Thanks. That worked like a charm ;)
Do you know why it wouldn't be recognized as a compatible browser "out
of the box"?
Jeromatron
Sep 25, 2009, 5:53:16 PM9/25/09
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Jason/Trevor,
I wonder if that could be a good webapp bundle :)
I'm trying to get something going to have an open repository of webapp
bundles - http://code.google.com/p/prism-apps/
If you're interested in adding it to the mix as something people could
just download and use.
On Sep 25, 1:09 pm, "Jason Miller" <ja...@developit.ca> wrote:
> Netflix just looks for Firefox, Safari and IE, and if the user agent string doesn't contain one of those, it tells you it wont work (even though it most likely would work). The default user-agent for Prism is different from that of Firefox so that applications can tell if they are running in Prism or not.
>
> *Jason Miller*
> 519.872.0797 // developIT [link:http://developit.ca/] // Jason Miller Design [link:http://jasonmillerdesign.com/]
> Developer of amoebaOS [link:https://amoebaos.com/], Shutterborg [link:http://shutterb.org/], Delitweet [link:http://delitweet.com/] & more
I wonder if that could be a good webapp bundle :)
I'm trying to get something going to have an open repository of webapp
bundles - http://code.google.com/p/prism-apps/
If you're interested in adding it to the mix as something people could
just download and use.
On Sep 25, 1:09 pm, "Jason Miller" <ja...@developit.ca> wrote:
> Netflix just looks for Firefox, Safari and IE, and if the user agent string doesn't contain one of those, it tells you it wont work (even though it most likely would work). The default user-agent for Prism is different from that of Firefox so that applications can tell if they are running in Prism or not.
>
> 519.872.0797 // developIT [link:http://developit.ca/] // Jason Miller Design [link:http://jasonmillerdesign.com/]
> Developer of amoebaOS [link:https://amoebaos.com/], Shutterborg [link:http://shutterb.org/], Delitweet [link:http://delitweet.com/] & more
>
> On Fri Sep 25 2009 14:57:10 GMT-0400 (EST), TrevorGerzen [link: mailto:gerzen.tre...@gmail.com] wrote:
>
> Thanks. That worked like a charm ;)
>
> Do you know why it wouldn't be recognized as a compatible browser "out
> of the box"?
>
> On Fri Sep 25 2009 14:57:10 GMT-0400 (EST), TrevorGerzen [link: mailto:gerzen.tre...@gmail.com] wrote:
>
> Thanks. That worked like a charm ;)
>
> Do you know why it wouldn't be recognized as a compatible browser "out
> of the box"?
>
> On Sep 25, 9:59am, Jason Miller <ja...@developit.ca [link: mailto:ja...@developit.ca]> wrote:
>
> > Find your *prefs.js* file (the location varies by Operating System), and add
> > the following line:
>
> > user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel
> > Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3");
>
> > If you are on a Mac, the file is in:
> > /home/[your username]/Library/Application Support/[application name]
> > /Profiles/[your profile]/prefs.js
>
> > cheers.
> > - Jason
>
> > Jason Miller
> > 519.872.0797 // developIT <http://developit.ca/> // Jason Miller
> > Design<http://jasonmillerdesign.com/>
> > *Developer of amoebaOS <https://amoebaos.com/>,
> > Shutterborg<http://shutterb.org/>,
> > Delitweet <http://delitweet.com/> & more*
>
>
> > Find your *prefs.js* file (the location varies by Operating System), and add
> > the following line:
>
> > user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel
> > Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3");
>
> > If you are on a Mac, the file is in:
> > /home/[your username]/Library/Application Support/[application name]
> > /Profiles/[your profile]/prefs.js
>
> > cheers.
> > - Jason
>
> > Jason Miller
> > 519.872.0797 // developIT <http://developit.ca/> // Jason Miller
> > Design<http://jasonmillerdesign.com/>
> > *Developer of amoebaOS <https://amoebaos.com/>,
> > Shutterborg<http://shutterb.org/>,
> > Delitweet <http://delitweet.com/> & more*
>
Jason Miller
Sep 25, 2009, 8:26:54 PM9/25/09
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Definitely - I am not in the US, so I don't have a Netflix account, but if I could get access to the HTML source of the basic Netflix "signed in" area, I could do up some custom CSS for platform integration and then wrap it all back into a bundle with the User-agent fix. Let me know.
- Jason
- Jason
| Jason Miller |
| Developer of amoebaOS, Shutterborg, Delitweet & more |
On Fri Sep 25 2009 17:53:16 GMT-0400 (EST), Jeromatron wrote:
Jason/Trevor,
I wonder if that could be a good webapp bundle :)
I'm trying to get something going to have an open repository of webapp
bundles - http://code.google.com/p/prism-apps/
If you're interested in adding it to the mix as something people could
just download and use.
On Sep 25, 1:09pm, "Jason Miller" <ja...@developit.ca> wrote:
> Netflix just looks for Firefox, Safari and IE, and if the user agent string doesn't contain one of those, it tells you it wont work (even though it most likely would work). The default user-agent for Prism is different from that of Firefox so that applications can tell if they are running in Prism or not.
>
> *Jason Miller*
> 519.872.0797 // developIThttp://developit.ca/ // Jason Miller Design
http://jasonmillerdesign.com/
> Developer of amoebaOShttps://amoebaos.com/, Shutterborg
http://shutterb.org/, Delitweet
http://delitweet.com/ & more
>
> On Fri Sep 25 2009 14:57:10 GMT-0400 (EST), TrevorGerzengerzen.tre...@gmail.com">gerzen.tre...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Thanks. That worked like a charm ;)
>
> Do you know why it wouldn't be recognized as a compatible browser "out
> of the box"?
>
> On Sep 25, 9:59am, Jason Miller <ja...@developit.caja...@developit.ca">ja..@developit.ca> wrote:
>
> > Find your *prefs.js* file (the location varies by Operating System), and add
> > the following line:
>
> > user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel
> > Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3");
>
> > If you are on a Mac, the file is in:
> > /home/[your username]/Library/Application Support/[application name]
> > /Profiles/[your profile]/prefs.js
>
> > cheers.
> > - Jason
>
> > Jason Miller
> > 519.872.0797 // developIT <http://developit.ca/> // Jason Miller
> > Design<http://jasonmillerdesign.com/>
> > *Developer of amoebaOS <https://amoebaos.com/>,
> > Shutterborg<http://shutterb.org/>,
> > Delitweet <http://delitweet.com/> & more*
>
TrevorGerzen
Sep 28, 2009, 1:10:55 PM9/28/09
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After I added in that line I am seeing this and can't use the app:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/ember/hRaOd1ZtlU7dv9a9V7pBs0B6H52vJAVH_m.png
I haven't tried uninstalling and reinstalling or anything like that so
I'm not sure if that would help. Any thoughts?
On Sep 25, 5:26 pm, "Jason Miller" <ja...@developit.ca> wrote:
> Definitely - I am not in the US, so I don't have a Netflix account, but if I could get access to the HTML source of the basic Netflix "signed in" area, I could do up some custom CSS for platform integration and then wrap it all back into a bundle with the User-agent fix. Let me know.
>
> - Jason
>
> *Jason Miller*
> > Developer of amoebaOS [image:https://amoebaos.com/]https://amoebaos.com/, Shutterborg [image:http://shutterb.org/]http://shutterb.org/, Delitweet [image:http://delitweet.com/]http://delitweet.com/& more
http://s3.amazonaws.com/ember/hRaOd1ZtlU7dv9a9V7pBs0B6H52vJAVH_m.png
I haven't tried uninstalling and reinstalling or anything like that so
I'm not sure if that would help. Any thoughts?
On Sep 25, 5:26 pm, "Jason Miller" <ja...@developit.ca> wrote:
> Definitely - I am not in the US, so I don't have a Netflix account, but if I could get access to the HTML source of the basic Netflix "signed in" area, I could do up some custom CSS for platform integration and then wrap it all back into a bundle with the User-agent fix. Let me know.
>
> - Jason
>
> 519.872.0797 // developIT [link:http://developit.ca/] // Jason Miller Design [link:http://jasonmillerdesign.com/]
> Developer of amoebaOS [link:https://amoebaos.com/], Shutterborg [link:http://shutterb.org/], Delitweet [link:http://delitweet.com/] & more
>
> On Fri Sep 25 2009 17:53:16 GMT-0400 (EST), Jeromatron [link: mailto:jeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com] wrote:
>
> Jason/Trevor,
>
> I wonder if that could be a good webapp bundle :)
>
> I'm trying to get something going to have an open repository of webapp
> bundles -http://code.google.com/p/prism-apps/
> On Fri Sep 25 2009 17:53:16 GMT-0400 (EST), Jeromatron [link: mailto:jeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com] wrote:
>
> Jason/Trevor,
>
> I wonder if that could be a good webapp bundle :)
>
> I'm trying to get something going to have an open repository of webapp
>
> If you're interested in adding it to the mix as something people could
> just download and use.
>
> If you're interested in adding it to the mix as something people could
> just download and use.
>
> On Sep 25, 1:09pm, "Jason Miller" <ja...@developit.ca [link: mailto:ja...@developit.ca]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Netflix just looks for Firefox, Safari and IE, and if the user agent string doesn't contain one of those, it tells you it wont work (even though it most likely would work). The default user-agent for Prism is different from that of Firefox so that applications can tell if they are running in Prism or not.
>
> > *Jason Miller*
> > 519.872.0797 // developIT [image:http://developit.ca/]http://developit.ca/// Jason Miller Design [image:http://jasonmillerdesign.com/]http://jasonmillerdesign.com/
>
>
>
> > Netflix just looks for Firefox, Safari and IE, and if the user agent string doesn't contain one of those, it tells you it wont work (even though it most likely would work). The default user-agent for Prism is different from that of Firefox so that applications can tell if they are running in Prism or not.
>
> > *Jason Miller*
> > Developer of amoebaOS [image:https://amoebaos.com/]https://amoebaos.com/, Shutterborg [image:http://shutterb.org/]http://shutterb.org/, Delitweet [image:http://delitweet.com/]http://delitweet.com/& more
>
> > On Fri Sep 25 2009 14:57:10 GMT-0400 (EST), TrevorGerzen [image: %3Ca%20href=]gerzen.tre...@gmail.com">gerzen.tre...@gmail.com [link: mailto:gerzen.tre...@gmail.com] wrote:
>
> > Thanks. That worked like a charm ;)
>
> > Do you know why it wouldn't be recognized as a compatible browser "out
> > of the box"?
>
> > On Fri Sep 25 2009 14:57:10 GMT-0400 (EST), TrevorGerzen [image: %3Ca%20href=]gerzen.tre...@gmail.com">gerzen.tre...@gmail.com [link: mailto:gerzen.tre...@gmail.com] wrote:
>
> > Thanks. That worked like a charm ;)
>
> > Do you know why it wouldn't be recognized as a compatible browser "out
> > of the box"?
>
> > On Sep 25, 9:59am, Jason Miller <ja...@developit.ca [link: mailto:ja...@developit.ca] [image: %3Ca%20href=]ja...@developit.ca">ja...@developit.ca [link: mailto:ja...@developit.ca]> wrote:
>
> > > Find your *prefs.js* file (the location varies by Operating System), and add
> > > the following line:
>
> > > user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel
> > > Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3");
>
> > > If you are on a Mac, the file is in:
> > > /home/[your username]/Library/Application Support/[application name]
> > > /Profiles/[your profile]/prefs.js
>
> > > cheers.
> > > - Jason
>
> > > Jason Miller
> > > 519.872.0797 // developIT <http://developit.ca/> // Jason Miller
> > > Design<http://jasonmillerdesign.com/>
> > > *Developer of amoebaOS <https://amoebaos.com/>,
> > > Shutterborg<http://shutterb.org/>,
> > > Delitweet <http://delitweet.com/> & more*
>
>
> > > Find your *prefs.js* file (the location varies by Operating System), and add
> > > the following line:
>
> > > user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel
> > > Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3");
>
> > > If you are on a Mac, the file is in:
> > > /home/[your username]/Library/Application Support/[application name]
> > > /Profiles/[your profile]/prefs.js
>
> > > cheers.
> > > - Jason
>
> > > Jason Miller
> > > 519.872.0797 // developIT <http://developit.ca/> // Jason Miller
> > > Design<http://jasonmillerdesign.com/>
> > > *Developer of amoebaOS <https://amoebaos.com/>,
> > > Shutterborg<http://shutterb.org/>,
> > > Delitweet <http://delitweet.com/> & more*
>
Jason Miller
Sep 28, 2009, 1:16:11 PM9/28/09
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Trevor,
That error message means you have somehow corrupted the application. What program did you use to modify your preferences file?
Try completely removing the Netflix webapp and creating it again.
- Jason
That error message means you have somehow corrupted the application. What program did you use to modify your preferences file?
Try completely removing the Netflix webapp and creating it again.
- Jason
| Jason Miller |
519.872.0797 // developIT // Jason Miller Design Developer of amoebaOS, Shutterborg, Delitweet & more |
On Mon Sep 28 2009 13:10:55 GMT-0400 (EST), TrevorGerzen wrote:
After I added in that line I am seeing this and can't use the app:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/ember/hRaOd1ZtlU7dv9a9V7pBs0B6H52vJAVH_m.png
I haven't tried uninstalling and reinstalling or anything like that so
I'm not sure if that would help. Any thoughts?
On Sep 25, 5:26pm, "Jason Miller" <ja...@developit.ca> wrote:
> Definitely - I am not in the US, so I don't have a Netflix account, but if I could get access to the HTML source of the basic Netflix "signed in" area, I could do up some custom CSS for platform integration and then wrap it all back into a bundle with the User-agent fix. Let me know.
>
> - Jason
>
> *Jason Miller*
> 519.872.0797 // developIT
> Developer of amoebaOS
>
> On Fri Sep 25 2009 17:53:16 GMT-0400 (EST), Jeromatronjeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com">jeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Jason/Trevor,
>
> I wonder if that could be a good webapp bundle :)
>
> I'm trying to get something going to have an open repository of webapp
> bundles -http://code.google.com/p/prism-apps/
>
> If you're interested in adding it to the mix as something people could
> just download and use.
>
> On Sep 25, 1:09pm, "Jason Miller" <ja...@developit.caja...@developit.ca">ja...@developit.ca> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Netflix just looks for Firefox, Safari and IE, and if the user agent string doesn't contain one of those, it tells you it wont work (even though it most likely would work). The default user-agent for Prism is different from that of Firefox so that applications can tell if they are running in Prism or not.
>
> > *Jason Miller*
> > 519.872.0797 // developIT
> > Developer of amoebaOS
>
> > On Fri Sep 25 2009 14:57:10 GMT-0400 (EST), TrevorGerzen%3Ca%20href=gerzen.tre...@gmail.com">gerzen.tre...@gmail.com
gerzen.tre...@gmail.com">gerzen.tre...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Thanks. That worked like a charm ;)
>
> > Do you know why it wouldn't be recognized as a compatible browser "out
> > of the box"?
>
> > On Sep 25, 9:59am, Jason Miller <ja...@developit.caja...@developit.ca">ja...@developit.ca
%3Ca%20href=ja...@developit.ca">ja...@developit.ca
ja...@developit.ca">ja...@developit.ca> wrote:
>
> > > Find your *prefs.js* file (the location varies by Operating System), and add
> > > the following line:
>
> > > user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel
> > > Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3");
>
> > > If you are on a Mac, the file is in:
> > > /home/[your username]/Library/Application Support/[application name]
> > > /Profiles/[your profile]/prefs.js
>
> > > cheers.
> > > - Jason
>
> > > Jason Miller
> > > 519.872.0797 // developIT <http://developit.ca/> // Jason Miller
> > > Design<http://jasonmillerdesign.com/>
> > > *Developer of amoebaOS <https://amoebaos.com/>,
> > > Shutterborg<http://shutterb.org/>,
> > > Delitweet <http://delitweet.com/> & more*
>
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