I am a Netflix user I am also a Linux user. I would also like to use Firefox but you do not provide any DRM support. When will this change?

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Perhaps then is when I start using Firefox again. I don't like the idea of having to have a different browser for each different thing I want a browser to do, that would be rediculous. What other details could you possibly need? I like having the choice to use or not use DRM material and your lack of providing that choice is objectionable, just as objectionable as it is for DRM providers, ie: Nook for PC, to not support my choice as a Linux user. I'm sure I'm going to miss Firefox, I've been using it for about 15 years now. I no longer buy any Nook books! I support your choice of not supporting Linux in this way if its your attitude that Linux users are only 2% or 3% of the worlds OS users anyway. Another reason to believev in Google, a great browser, as well as Earth, Maps, Search, OS, and digitizing the worlds libraries. All honorable endevors by what seems to be a more and more honorable company all the time. Why don't you (Firefox) fully support HTML 5 yet? What seems to be the hold-up? DRM support is part of that!

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Hi Timevirus,
This is a good question!
Firefox has traditionally lagged behind other browsers in terms of DRM support, because DRM is a thorny issue for Mozilla. Mozillians believe in an open web controlled by the users - with users having the power to remix and create new content. DRM restricts what users can do and runs counter to that.
However, [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challenge-of-serving-users/ things are changing]. Some [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/ very clever folks are working] to integrate a new DRM technology (called EME) into Firefox. EME has been advocated by many of the big players in the industry (including Netflix) - so, hopefully, both Firefox and Netflix will eventually work with EME.
EME is [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1089858 scheduled to land in Firefox 37], due to be released in the second week of April 2015. But this is tentative - so it could well be later.
Hope this helps answer your question.