How do I fix Netflix requiring Silverlight update?

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit, which I installed using the original release (not the newer 12.04.2 release), and have been successfully using netflix-desktop ever since the ppa:ehoover/compholio repository was made available. I never encountered any problems, whatsoever, until a couple of days ago.

It appears that Netflix now requires an update to Silverlight, and I have been unsuccessful in updating Silverlight with the patched wine being used for netflix-desktop.

I'm hoping an update will be available through the repository, mentioned above. Until then, however, does anyone have a solution for upgrading Silverlight?

Solution 1:

I found the solution to this problem at the Launchpad page for netflix-desktop.

Erich E. Hoover wrote:

It might be that you started with a profile from before when I had the installer disable automatic updates. So, I would suggest wiping the profile folder to see if that fixes it.

The command to do that is:

rm -Rf ~/.wine-browser

For those that don't like messing with the console, you can just go to your home directory and either click on "View" and check "Show Hidden Files", or just press Ctrl+H, then scroll down until you see the folder labeled ".wine-browser", perform a right mouse-click on the folder, and select "Move to Trash" from the resulting menu.

Solution 2:

I don't think it is the silverlight update which does it. It is Firefox update. So press F11 to get into window mode. Then press F10. Go to Options/Preferences ->Advanced-> updates, then disable the automatic browser update.

I was deleting wine-browser everytime, but this fixed it.