ChromeFlix - or Netflix Watch Instantly for Google Chrome on the Mac

[...] See the original post

[...] See the original post here: ChromeFlix and#8211; or Netflix Watch Instantly for Google Chrome on the and#8230; [...]

Fantastic for Mac users! I'm

Fantastic for Mac users! I'm guessing there's not much of a chance for a Linux Chromeflix? Is that even possible?

For linux, the problem is

For linux, the problem is that Moonlight implements Silverlight WITHOUT the DRM that made Netflix choose it in the first place. And, without DRM support, it can't play the videos.

So, the only way to use Watch Instantly on linux is to run VirtualBox and run a whole Windows instance.

Wish I could help,

Steven

THANK YOU so much for this. Google needs to thank you also, because literally the only reason I didn't switch from firefox was that I couldn't play netflix instant videos on Chrome. Now with Chromeflix, I've totally made the switch to Chrome, deleted firefox off of my mac.

Is this only for Snow Leopard

Is this only for Snow Leopard? I can't get it to work on Leopard.

Though I have only tested on

Though I have only tested on 10.6, this should work on any OS capable of running Chrome (dev or beta). The app, ChromeFlix, is simply a wrapper around the command also mentioned here in the article. Quit Chrome. Start a Terminal. Enter the command and test it that way.

You forgot the final quote

You forgot the final quote mark the whole command should be:

open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app --args -user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.1 9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.19"

All the best!

Joe

Good catch! Updating the

Good catch! Updating the posting now. Thanks Joe.

Thanks this si working out

Thanks this si working out great for me! Now only if Firebug could be fully ported over to Chrome I would only need one browser!

Now if only chrome ran video

Now if only chrome ran video well on macs - streaming netflix on my computer via chrome causes it to heat up twice as fast and get twice as hot as it does with safari. An chance you can put pressure on google to be a little less lazy like you did with netflix?

For Leopard (10.5.X) (not

For Leopard (10.5.X) (not Snow Leopard) use this:
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome –args -user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525/19"

via: http://moi.cirne.com/index.php/2009/12/19/setting-user-agent-for-mac-chr...

Good catch! And thanks for

Good catch! And thanks for posting that here. If people want, I can package up that Leopard version in an App Wrapper too.

please do!

I am no expert on the alias

I am no expert on the alias command, and I'm a little confused. Since it is typically enclosed in quotation marks, and there already are quotations within the command, could you please spell out how the shortcut should look like in .profile or .cshrc? Thanks!

http://code.google.com/p

http://code.google.com/p/stevenjaycohen/downloads/detail?name=ChromeFlix...

There is the download for Leopard (OSX 10.5.x)

Enclose it in single quotes.

Enclose it in single quotes. This is how it looks in my .profile:

alias netflix='open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app --args -user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.19"'

Hungrysquirrel, have you

Hungrysquirrel, have you tried Firebug Lite? (http://getfirebug.com/firebuglite) It's not quite as nice as Firebug on Firefox, but it provides much of the same functionality.

I am new to Mac's and love

I am new to Mac's and love them. When I mean new I mean NEW! My question is: could making chrome appear to be safari could be bad in some cases? I dont want chrome with a identity complex do I?

Thank you for helping me understand.
Lee

No, it won't cause a problem,

No, it won't cause a problem, Chrome and Safari use the same rendering engine. And, since you will only start Chrome with ChromeFlix when you want to watch netflix, it won't affect you the rest of the time.

How can I undo the command?

Yule, you do not need to

Yule, you do not need to *undo* anything. The command makes no modifications to your system. Just start up Chrome normally and the flags discussed in this post are NOT invoked.

Hi Steve, I think there's a

Hi Steve, I think there's a mistake in the leopard package. It wasn't working for me, but once I went into the script file (Contents>Resources>script) and removed the "open" at the beginning of the script it started working fine. (I'm running 10.5.8).

Thanks for putting this together.

I would need confirmation on

I would need confirmation on this from another 10.5.x user since it seems to work as is for previous downloaders.

Thanks for the info though!

Malcolm is correct. I'm using

Malcolm is correct. I'm using 10.5.8, and as I don't normally use Macs (this is a roommate's computer) I was stumped on how to fix the problem. When I first downloaded the file, it opened for a microsecond then closed again without ever launching the Chrome window. When I removed the "open" from the script file, it worked as intended.

Thanks for this!

Another 10.5.8 user here, and

Another 10.5.8 user here, and I had the same results as Malcolm. ChromeFlix would open, but it wouldn't cause Chrome to start up. Removing 'open' from the script file resolved the issue, and I'm watching Netflix problem-free now :)

Hi Steve:

Hi Steve:
I can confirm that (1) your non-Snow, Leopard version has the "open" command in the script, (2) it does not work as advertised on 10.5.8, (2) that if you delete the "open" command it works like a charm. Thanks for your work, but you might want to delete that "open" command.
K

Thanks for the reports! I've

Thanks for the reports! I've updated the 10.5.x download.

The download has been updated

The download has been updated. Thanks for the bug reports.

Just wanted to thank you for

Just wanted to thank you for this. I've been using Chrome for a few months now, and whenever I want to watch instant watch I have to open Firefox. I saw this fix floating around, but never knew how to implement it on the Mac. Worked great once I realized that I had to move Chrome to my app folder.