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January 17th, 2008

Netflix “Browse Instant” in Firefox

Netflix is a wonderful service, but they have the annoying problem of being tied to Internet Explorer for their online viewing system. So for all of us Firefox users I sat down and took a look at this problem and found a simple solution.

First, open Firefox, click the “Tools” menu and choose “Add-Ons”.

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Next choose “Get Extensions” a the bottom right of the box.

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In the search box type “IE Tab” and hit “Search” and you should find the extension called “IE Tab”.

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Click the extension and choose to “Install Now”.

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Next go to the Netflix website and then click the “Tools” menu and choose “IE Tab Options”.

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Now add netflix.

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That’s all it takes. Now whenever you go to Netflix it will be fooled into thinking you are running IE and you can view movies online.

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