Firefox has joined the Netflix community on Windows with the addition of HTML5 video extensions.

The box set streaming giant’s HTML5 video player now works with Mozilla’s browser and digital-rights management software from Adobe to police content – Primetime CDM.

It means you can stream Netflix to Firefox on a Windows PC without first installing Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interfaces (NPAPI).

The player also comes with: Media Source Extensions (MSE), allowing video streaming to adapt to available bandwidth; the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) to view protected content; and the Web Cryptography API (WebCrypto) Message Security Layer client-server protocol.

Netflix developed HTML5 video for web browsers after dumping Microsoft’s proprietary Silverlight as its media platform. Silverlight will end-of-life in 2021.

The streaming service has also worked with Microsoft on Internet Explorer and its all-new Edge, Google on Chrome and Apple on Safari.

Mozilla said it would bring Adobe’s Primetime CDM to Firefox on “other” operating systems in 2016. ®

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