{"id":1391,"date":"2015-06-11T13:57:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T21:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2015-06-11T13:57:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T21:57:49","slug":"silverlight-on-linux-firefox-pipelight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/2015\/06\/11\/silverlight-on-linux-firefox-pipelight\/","title":{"rendered":"Silverlight on Linux Firefox &#8212; Pipelight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To make Microsoft&#8217;s obsolete Silverlight plug in work with Firefox on Linux there are work-arounds available.<\/p>\n<p>First, Chrome can be made to work with some Silverlight sites using <a href=\"https:\/\/ieonchrome.com\/welcome?install\">https:\/\/ieonchrome.com\/welcome?install<\/a>. Unfortunately it seems to fail with some site that want to open in a new window or popup. Test it.<\/p>\n<p>Back to Firefox:<\/p>\n<p>Install Wine<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/pipelight.net\/cms\/install\/installation-ubuntu.html<\/p>\n<pre><span class=\"codeline\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight\/stable\n<\/span><span class=\"codeline\">sudo apt-get update\n<\/span><span class=\"codeline\">sudo apt-get install --install-recommends pipelight-multi\n<\/span><span class=\"codeline\">sudo pipelight-plugin --update<\/span><\/pre>\n<p>http:\/\/pipelight.net\/cms\/plugin-silverlight.html<\/p>\n<pre><span class=\"codeline\">sudo pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight\n<\/span><\/pre>\n<p>Check for install errors<\/p>\n<pre><span class=\"codeline\">pipelight-plugin --system-check<\/span><\/pre>\n<p>Some websites will show you an error that your operating system is not supported. To get around this problem, you will need to install an user agent switcher as described <a href=\"http:\/\/pipelight.net\/cms\/installation-user-agent.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/user-agent-overrider\/\">https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/user-agent-overrider\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make Microsoft&#8217;s obsolete Silverlight plug in work with Firefox on Linux there are work-arounds available. First, Chrome can be made to work with some Silverlight sites using https:\/\/ieonchrome.com\/welcome?install. Unfortunately it seems to fail with some site that want to open in a new window or popup. Test it. Back to Firefox: Install Wine http:\/\/pipelight.net\/cms\/install\/installation-ubuntu.html [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}