Netflix Desktop was working fine until I upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10 today. Now, it gives me the message that the silverlight plugin has crashed. I tried different workarounds and to even downgrade my silverlight version to 4--apparently 5 does not work.
I would appreciate help with this issue, and I'm sure I'm not the only one experiencing it.
you need to uninstall netflix-desktop and wine-compholio by purging them both
apt-get purge netflix-desktop wine-compholio
After this is done follow the instructions here:
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/pipelight-use-silverlight-in-your-linux.html
Thanks! Actually, I was able to solve it a few days ago using the last few comments here. It was determined that my issue had something to do with hw-acceleration. I didn't get the chance to post back here.
If you tried pipelight without success do this:
sudo pipelight-plugin --disable-all
sudo rm /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libpipelight.so
pipelight-plugin --disable-all
In my case the problem was related to hardware acceleration. Running netflix desktop using the command below worked for me:
wine-browser --disable-hw-acceleration
If the above works for you you can make changes to the launcher that will stick until the next update to netflix-desktop by issuing the following commands:
sudo mv /usr/share/wine-browser-installer/hw-accel-default /usr/share/wine-browser-installer/hw-accel-default2
echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nexit 1;' | sudo tee /usr/share/wine-browser-installer/hw-accel-default
sudo chmod +x /usr/share/wine-browser-installer/hw-accel-default
Source: https://answers.launchpad.net/netflix-desktop/+question/237615
