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That was a DRM thing. Eventually Firefox added support for EME: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3183742/data-center-cloud/ne...

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But a downside is that Netflix still limits Firefox to 720p video, even if you're paying for 1080p:

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742

You can see what resolution you're getting with the Ctrl+Alt+Shift+D shortcut to bring up Netflix's debugging information (and press again to dismiss it). You can also verify your resolution with the Test Patterns video.

The sad thing is 1080p video works just fine in Firefox. There's a Firefox add-on available which enables the 1080p stream:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/force-1080p-n...

But that's also the restriction for Chrome. Only edge, IE and Safari get 1080p support for browsers. Which proves to me that I don't need 1080p really since I hadn't noticed.

How far do you sit from your screen, how big is it?

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