Simply switch the feature to “never activate” to block it from being used by any site or service you connect the web browser to. You may disable Widevine and/or Primetime on the abouts:addons page if it is already downloaded. Make sure “Play DRM content” is unchecked.Load about:preferences#content in the browser’s address bar.You can check for it by loading about:addons in the browser’s address bar and switching to the plugins section there.įirefox users who don’t want Widevine to be downloaded to their system can prevent this from happening in the following way:
They will notice that Firefox downloads the Widevine CDM when it is requested for the first time. This means that Linux users and pre-Vista users won’t be able to make use of this to play Amazon Prime Video.Įveryone else may tune in right away.
#Silverlight for amazon on mac mac os x#
Currently, only Windows Vista and newer versions of Windows and Mac OS X are supported. One caveat is that some operating systems are not supported when it comes to Widevine. Since it is integrated in Firefox 47, the version is currently reserved for the Developer and Nightly version of the browser it is not yet available for Beta and Stable versions (this happens on April 26th and June 7th respectively if things go as planned).įirefox Developer and Nightly users can visit Amazon right now to watch Prime Video content without Silverlight plugin installed though and things will work fine. 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. The schemaLocation doesn't look like the right address to me?Īnyone know if I need to configure something or change something to access WCF webservices on Amazon EC2?Įdit: Should note : Windows Server 2003, IIS 6.Firefox users will soon be able to play Amazon Prime Video without requiring the Microsoft Silverlight plugin to do so. Into the internet explorer address bar I get a wsdl description - but it has this part in the config which seems a bit odd Gives the error "is not recognised as a known document type" However with the Amazon Elastic Cloud instance entering the url Usually I would add a service reference in visual studio and enter the URL for the webservice, something like and a proxy would be generated for me. xap file, but I'm having some trouble with using the webservices that the silverlight application requires. We are experimenting with hosting a silverlight application on Amazons EC2.
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