There will only be a handful of settings there.īelow the list of settings, right click. Accept, and you’ll see a big table of settings. It’ll warn you that you can break things. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0 Win64 圆4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/.139 Safari/537.36Įnter about:config in Firefox’s address bar. If you have a Windows install, you can grab the latest agent string form it. At the time of this article, the latest version of Chrome is 61. None of the agent spoofing add-ons are current enough to handle this. Next, you’re going to need to modify the user agent string in Firefox to trick Sling TV into thinking you’re on Chrome on Windows. On older versions of Firefox, the DRM checkbox is in the “Content” tab under the “Preferences” menu. It’s just a checkbox directly below the “Applications” box. If you’re using it or a newer version, you can find the DRM controls under the “General” tab of the “Preferences” menu. Firefox 56 changed the settings interface. So, you need to enable that functionality in Firefox. Of course, Sling TV relies on DRM, specifically Widevine. Actually, you can get Sling TV working on Firefox instead of Chrome… as long as Sling thinks you’re on Chrome. They do, however, offer beta support for Google Chrome on Windows and Mac. Furthermore, by default it is available within United States only. The service doesn’t support Linux, though, at all. Sling TV is a popular alternative for cord cutters looking to be free of their cable bill while keeping their favorite TV channels. $ – requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user.# – requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of sudo command.
#Slingplayer plugin firefox install#
RequirementsĪ working Linux install with Firefox 52+ installed.
This will work on any Linux distribution. Play content from Sling TV in Firefox on Linux.
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