I'm a regular subscriber to NowTV. I like it because of some good sporting events. I want to watch NowTV on a Linux system but it isn't supported.
I tried Firefox, Chrome and Edge browsers on Linux and received the same "unsupported browser" error.
The OSs I use daily are Linux and FreeBSD and I don't want to switch to Windows to watch NowTV.
I found this old tutorial, GNU/Linux Ubuntu 20.04 Installing Silverlight – QuickStart Guide, and followed it to install Pipelight and Silverlight on Ubuntu 20.04.
The article, Watch HBO on Ubuntu, was also helpful.
My current problem is that Silverlight and Pipelight require the NPAPI plug-ins, but they were removed from Firefox some years ago and for this reason I don't see the Silverlight plugin on the Firefox plugins tab.
Below is what I want to see:
But the only plugins/addons I see are the Widevine codec and the OpenH264 Video codec.
I've also posted this question on Reddit and one user gave me a potential good suggestion. He told me :
Silverlight has been retired. Your streaming service doesn't use itanymore. Nobody does.
- Reinstall Firefox
- Refresh your profile to undo all changes you've made, while keeping your bookmarks and logins
- Install User-Agent Switcher
- Go to its options
- Change it to Custom Mode
- Type this into the box below:
{"echo.opera.com, nowtv.com, example.net": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:${browser.version|ua-parser}) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/${browser.version|ua-parser}" }
- Click on Save at the bottom of the page
- Test it at https://echo.opera.com
This will make the domains you add to that list think you'reusing Windows 10 instead of Linux.
When you find a site that says that your browser is unsupported,please use this anonymous form to report it.
He suggested that I use that agent switcher. I have followed his instructions,but it does not work. Probably something is not good with the code.
Can anyone help?
