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(Once that particular window becomes "unfocused," which is a term I learned today.) Once upon a time, if you put it in full-screen mode, it would exit back out of that mode as soon as you'd clicked anywhere other than screen displaying the video.

Do i need microsoft silverlight for netflix on mac full#

Go figure.)Ī long-standing frustration for me and many others had been the inability of Microsoft Silverlight - which handles Netflix's streaming content - to display video full screen on a 2nd monitor while you go about your business on your primary monitor, i.e., watch one screen but work in another.

Do i need microsoft silverlight for netflix on mac software#

Font management software and internet video. And once I was able to get it to work, which is a whole 'nother story involving, of all things, font management software. (This is once Netflix finally was able to offer streaming content on the Mac.

So, the problem - like many people who work from home or otherwise have the freedom to do so, I like to play something from Netflix Watch Instant on a second monitor while I work at my desk. If you're on the Silverlight development team, you're also encouraged to keep reading, because damn, this was frustrating for a regular end user like me. If you're not here because you're trying to solve the same problem I had (i.e, you're my mom, my dad or David in New Mexico), and if you're also really, really bored, or possibly if you have insomnia or are a masochist, you can read the below long and overly detailed description of the problem / process. So maybe someday this post will save someone else a few minutes of frustration. But in researching the solution today, I came across some recent forum posts from tech-savvy sounding people who found themselves in the same dumb boat I was in. The problem was so embarrassingly my own fault that I'm a little sheepish posting this. One of those "this should be so easy!" type things that's so hard for my problem-solving personality to let go of.

Do i need microsoft silverlight for netflix on mac how to#

So here's a post about a Mac OS X technical problem that frustrated me for a bit, with directions on how to solve it. I'm the one my friends tend to call if they have a frustrating Mac problem that they can't solve themselves, both because they think I may know the answer off the top of my head, and because they know that as long as I have the time, I honestly enjoy trying to figure out the solution. If you ever go on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire," I'd be a pretty good phone-a-friend. What I do have is a pretty good grasp of how to troubleshoot, and pretty good skills at finding what I need online if I am stumped. So - I'm no technical genius by any stretch. For anyone who knows web, I'm slightly more comfortable editing HTML in Split View in Dreamweaver than working in Design View, but only slightly - the way someone might be slightly more comfortable drowning in water as opposed to, say, drowning in rubbing alcohol. My web-coding roots pre-date WYSIWYG, but I stopped really learning anything web-related around 2001 when I got my first print production job and shifted focus.

I'm using Blogger because I haven't had time to get my head around Wordpress. I don't know a thing about Windows, can't program in any language, and am woefully out of date with regard to online technologies. What if I drop the 'e'? Slightly more tech-savvy than the average Jo. If you're one of the three people who actually checks this blog (hi mom and dad! and David in New Mexico!), you probably know that I'm a Mac user, and that I am slightly more tech-savvy than the average Joe (Yes, I realize this is the wrong gender, but average Jane annoys me.

Do i need microsoft silverlight for netflix on mac professional#

My excuse for a blog has yet again become neglected and at some point will morph into something else (in theory, something better designed, more professionally hosted and domain-named, and more focused than the currently slapped together "whatever shiny thing catches my eye" Blogspot mess.) But since realistically, this transformation won't happen soon, and I'm currently working to develop a good healthy writing habit for both personal and professional reasons, this seems like as good a place as any to do so. If you arrived via a search engine and the post title means anything to you, I advise you to skip to the bottom for the step by step.