Netflix’s Chrome OS Plugin May Be One of Google’s First Native Client Examples

http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/2011/08/12/netflixs-chrome-os-plugin-may-be-one-of-googles-first-native-client-examples/

by darkduck • 15 years ago

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bdonlan• 15 years ago

Native client isn't pepper - they're two different things. If netflix was using native client, it wouldn't _need_ a plugin preinstalled - they'd just download a native client executable the first time you connect.

modeless3• 15 years ago

Every Native Client executable must use Pepper for all I/O. Native Client isn't yet enabled by default, so a Chrome extension is necessary.

nkassis• 15 years ago

I'm trying to understand, google hasn't enabled native client on chromeos yet? And the chrome extension allows you to enable it for a specific site? Is that possible for any developer to do? That could be useful for a use case I have.

dirtyhand• 15 years ago

Anyone else get random slowdowns when using Netflix on Chrome? Everytime it happens, I just switch over to Firefox and the problem disappears. Restarting Chrome does not fix the issue either.

cmelbye• 15 years ago

Silverlight doesn't even work on Chrome for me, I have to switch to Safari to watch Netflix.

modeless3• 15 years ago

That's because Chrome/Mac isn't one of Silverlight's supported platforms, so they don't do any bugfixes for it.

pplante• 15 years ago

I had troubles with some of the dev/beta releases of Chrome for Mac, so I switched back to stable and its working great. Maybe you're running one of those builds?

rsanchez1• 15 years ago

I wish HP treated hybrid plugin (the equivalent of Native Client for webOS) developers like Google treats their Native Client developers. Oh well, just one of the reasons they folded.

Netflix’s Chrome OS Plugin May Be One of Google’s First Native Client Examples

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