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    What is Firefox DRM Free or EME Free?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Spartan@HIDevolution, May 22, 2015.

  1. Spartan@HIDevolution

    Spartan@HIDevolution Company Representative

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    I just downloaded Firefox EME Free edition which has no EME AKA DRM just for the sake of not having it but I don't know what it is other than it's some sort of proprierity or licensed playback for Netflix or I dunno what which I don't use so...

    I installed Firefox 38.0.5 Beta 3 as many are complaining that Firefox 38.0.1 slows down browsing big time... Every new version of Firefox has a new useless bloat now.......first we had One Click Search, then we got the chat option, now we have something called Stitch! Gosh...anyway......back to the main question.....

    Can someone shed some light on this DRM thing? is it a wise choice that I installed the EME Free edition of Firefox?

    I switched to Chrome for a day after seeing how Mozilla are ruining my favorite browser but I had a major issue with Chrome that even though I have the latest JAVA installed, sites that require JAVA tell me there is no JAVA installed in my browser, I went to about :plugins in Chrome to forcefully enable JAVA but it wasn't even listed there :(

    Bloody hell
     
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    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm?as=u&utm_source=inproduct
    here is some more info. it also tells you how to disable it in regular firefox release, since mozila may stop releasing EME free version.
    It's mostly for HTML5, but I have no idea which content is protected, I guess you'll find out if it doesn't work.
    This is such a nonsense, only if everybody shut it off and boycott websites using it, OK I stop dreaming now.
    BTW I'm on ver 38.01 and I don't see Adobe prime time cdm. maybe next version will have it.
     
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