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by: bgstreet57 October 1, 2012 10:06 AM PDT

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mountain lion and netflix downstreaming?

by bgstreet57 - 10/1/12 10:06 AM

I've been using Netflix for a while now. I recently bought a new macbook pro, mountain lion, and now when i try to downstream films on netflix, i get a screen telling me to download MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT, then i can screen films. but Silverlight never downloads, I never get the application, only an alias. Does anyone else have this problem? And how can I solve it?

I tried using my old computer, macbook pro with snow leopard and netflix runs fine, i can downstream films without any problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks

bgstreet


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Google Silverlight and then download it

by mrmacfixit Moderator - 10/1/12 12:27 PM

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manually from the MS site.

That said, not sure that you actually need it.

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mountain lion and netflix

by bgstreet57 - 10/1/12 11:43 PM

In Reply to: Google Silverlight and then download it by mrmacfixit Moderator

yes, i tried downloading it from ms site. i'm not sure that i needed silverlight either, but netflix gives me a full screen of the film i want to see with the message, that i have to download silverlight in order the screen the film.

funny, right? any ideas on what i could do to correct this?

thanks,

bgstreet


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Are you saying that you cannot download it from the MS site?

by mrmacfixit Moderator - 10/2/12 4:53 AM

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http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/get-started/install/uninstall-mac.aspx
has a link to install it and instructions on how to remove it.

try the removal first.

Silverlight allows movies to be shown in your Web Browser

Any information from Netflix support?

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Note: This post was edited by a forum moderator to remove span tags on 10/05/2012 at 3:30 PM PT


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that worked!

by bgstreet57 - 10/2/12 7:50 AM

In Reply to: Are you saying that you cannot download it from the MS site? by mrmacfixit Moderator

thank you, i uninstalled silverlight and reinstalled it and it works fine with netflix. thank you so much, much appreciated.

bgstreet

PS: i mistakenly thought silverlight was an application and was looking for it in applications. thanks for clearing it all up for me.


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(NT) you're welcome

by mrmacfixit Moderator - 10/2/12 10:20 AM

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