Moonlight plug-in for Firefox or IceCat aka. "silverlight"

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Moonlight plug-in for Firefox or IceCat aka. "silverlight"

#1 Post by tom4jesus »

I was not sure of the best place to put this thread but it seems to apply to software.

For users of Firefox or IceCat there is a plug-in available that is the Unix version of Microsoft's "Silverlight" called "Moonlight"

Just go to this page with Firefox or IceCat and click the green install button to install the plug-in;

http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/

I tried it with Seamonkey too, but it did not work.
I have heard it also works with Opera, but I have not tried it.

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#2 Post by MU »

silverlight is written in Mono, a library that mimics Microsofts ".net".
try:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=259146
Mono might rely on several Gnome libraries, I did not try it myself.
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#4 Post by nooby »

Have any of you using Moonlight to test this new thing?

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/whatI ... =WebClient
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The Web Client version of WorldWide Telescope offers a subset of the features from the WorldWide Telescope Windows® Client that was released in May 2008. Details on the feature sets for each release are outlined below.
One can look at high definition maps of Mars.

But I don't have moonlight and wonder if it really works. No need to install it if it fails
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Moonlight = silverlight in linux

#5 Post by nancy reagan »

Moonlight is silverlight in linux and if you do a search you'll find some posts, though I do not understand them.

All the commercial tv stations in the Netherlands stream through Silverlight.

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#6 Post by willem1940NLD »

Using puppy 525 and firefox 5.

I had moonlight on different distros and older firefoxes; always rather bad, interrupting, croaking, often crashing/freezing the browser.

Moreover, Dutch media are using different Silverlight versions which I saw no Moonlight solution for so far.

No luck at all with Moonlight in newer firefoxes (3.++, 4, 5).

Found "help" but am not enough a technician to follow up instructions:

http://support.mozilla.com/oc/questions/839794

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#7 Post by playdayz »

I researched it and found that it will not play Netflix, so i quit investigating ;-)

Let me know if I am wrong please.

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playdayz wrote:I researched it and found that it will not play Netflix, so i quit investigating ;-)

Let me know if I am wrong please.
Did I hear development had been stopped?
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#9 Post by James C »

playdayz wrote:I researched it and found that it will not play Netflix, so i quit investigating ;-)

Let me know if I am wrong please.
Zero success with Moonlight here as well.

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#10 Post by Makoto »

Netflix uses DRMed Silverlight, I believe, and there's probably no or little chance of Moonlight supporting that, unless Microsoft contributes to the project. :(
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#12 Post by Bert »

I wasn't able to use Moonlight either.

After installing it, the TV station popped up a message saying "your version of Silverlight is outdated" or something like that. I checked and yes I had installed the latest Moonlight .. :roll:
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#13 Post by Hogweed »

willem1940NLD wrote:Using puppy 525 and firefox 5.

I had moonlight on different distros and older firefoxes; always rather bad, interrupting, croaking, often crashing/freezing the browser.

Moreover, Dutch media are using different Silverlight versions which I saw no Moonlight solution for so far.

No luck at all with Moonlight in newer firefoxes (3.++, 4, 5).

Found "help" but am not enough a technician to follow up instructions:

http://support.mozilla.com/oc/questions/839794
I have working Moonlight 4 Preview edition with Firefox 6 Beta on Puppy Linux 5.2. Also had to Install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... r/?src=api to over-ride version check in Firefox 6

I have previously tried to install this with Firefox 4 but could not get it to work but it installed perfectly this time from http://go-mono.com/moonlight/download.aspx

Have not tried it with Firefox 5.

Sliverlight test pages work and I can view Sky News at http://news.sky.com/home/liveplus

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#14 Post by willem1940NLD »

http://www.metaseek.nl/search/nl/4/omroep

http://www.metaseek.nl/search/nl/1/rtl

Most of the Dutch transmitters if using some Silverlight version, work poorly or not at all in any Moonlight version, also sometimes making browsers crash.

Maybe I'll try again in a year or two.

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#15 Post by AF Branden »

Please let me know if you get moonlight working in firefox 5.0. I was trying to apply for a job but I can't even access the website because it utilizes silverlight.
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#16 Post by willem1940NLD »

AF Branden wrote:Please let me know if you get moonlight working in firefox 5.0. I was trying to apply for a job but I can't even access the website because it utilizes silverlight.
:?: :?:

Normally, at clicking a video in such websites, it offers you to install Silverlight; accept and it will change in Moonlight offer, follow instructions.

Click any orange link marked "bekijk":
http://www.publiekeomroep.nl/

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#17 Post by AF Branden »

I followed the step-by-step instructions but it gives me a message, "Novell Moonlight could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 5.0"

EDIT: I got it to install into Firefox 4.0, but it doesn't function.
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Moonlight with Firefox

#18 Post by John51 »

Is there a trick to get Moonlight to work with Firefox. I'm trying to use it to watch a live video stream at
http://www.kptv.com/category/210121/wat ... ected=true

The stream works in Windows but always crashes in Puppy.

Thanks

Icyos

Re: Moonlight with Firefox

#19 Post by Icyos »

John51 wrote:Is there a trick to get Moonlight to work with Firefox. I'm trying to use it to watch a live video stream at
http://www.kptv.com/category/210121/wat ... ected=true

The stream works in Windows but always crashes in Puppy.

Thanks
Hi i'm using my own rexbang build, with Google Chrome 13, installed moonlight and went to site you listed played back fine no issues after it installed its codecs. Ill make a video and post it on my site of how I did it for you.

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Moonlight in Puppy/Rexbang

#20 Post by John51 »

I think the problem may be that the codecs aren't downloading. I did get it to install in Linux Mint but there the video quality is poor compared to Windows on the site I referenced above. Note that site only runs with live video in the mornings and afternoons Pacific Time, other times its traffic cameras.

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