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Widevine plugin creashes all streaming sites

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For the past week, when I login any streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, etc) I get a message "Gah, your tab just crashed". After going through every add-on and plugins I found that 'Widevine Content Decryption Module provided by Google Inc' causes this. Disabling widevine allows the tabs to load but then I get a request to enable DRM to play the videos and if I do it just enables widevide again and the tab crashes. I never had this issue before. Is there a different plugin I can use or a way around the DRM request? Widevine version is the latest is updated.

For the past week, when I login any streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, etc) I get a message "Gah, your tab just crashed". After going through every add-on and plugins I found that 'Widevine Content Decryption Module provided by Google Inc' causes this. Disabling widevine allows the tabs to load but then I get a request to enable DRM to play the videos and if I do it just enables widevide again and the tab crashes. I never had this issue before. Is there a different plugin I can use or a way around the DRM request? Widevine version is the latest is updated.
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The Widevine plugin is the only way to play DRM protected content.

Maybe try the current Nightly that can use Widevine 4.10.2449.0 to see whether that version behaves better.

  • 1758421 - [Meta] Update Widevine to 4.10.2449.0
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cor-el
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The Widevine plugin is the only way to play DRM protected content.

Maybe try the current Nightly that can use Widevine 4.10.2449.0 to see whether that version behaves better.

  • 1758421 - [Meta] Update Widevine to 4.10.2449.0
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I still don't know what's causing it to fail. It is up to date with the latest version and I could not find support for end users anywhere. It works on Nightly though. Thank you.

cor-el
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Is there anything in the Browser Console about the Widevine crashes ?

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I couldn't find anything about widevine in the browser console. I tried downloading a previous version and replacing the documentation in the profile folder gmp-widevinecdm but firefox won't recognize it. I get a message saying it'll be installed soon but nothing happens unless I click in updates in the add-ons tab, then I get the crashing version.

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Dropa said
Plugins/Addon issue support is provided by the Addon Developer not from Firefox.

The Firefox web browser from mozilla.org comes with the Widevine Plugin. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm

This is not a NPAPI Plugin and they are no longer supported. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/npapi-plugins

Addons is a general term that groups together the separate Extensions, Themes, Dictionaries, Language Packs, Themes, Search Engines.

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