Currently there are many users who instead of using Firefox use Chrome. This is because Chrome offers better compatibility with some work or entertainment services. Perhaps the most famous is Netflix, a streaming television service that recently arrived in Spain and other countries thanks to this Chrome, but that it will not take long to reach other web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox.
Mozilla Firefox developers have announced that Firefox 49 will have support for Netflix and similar services as eliminate the use of NPAPI technology.
Firefox currently uses NPAPI technology for viewing through plugins, this makes services like Netflix incompatible since they use HTML DRM for their operation, a html5 function that is incorporated by default in many browsers. Mozilla announced that HTML5 DRM would be added to Firefox but it was not thought that its full implementation would be in such a short time since Mozilla Firefox 49 is expected to be available from September 2016.
Firefox 49 will start using features advertised as HTML5 DRM
The most interesting of all this is that Mozilla Firefox 49 will be used by those who seek entertainment on their computers, not only being compatible with Netflix but also with other services such as Amazon Prime. However, for the more impatient, Mozilla Firefox has the option of using Google technology to run Netflix and other services. This solution for by use Google Widevine CDM, but it is something that is still having a lot of problems. Problems that are expected to be solved in the next month.
In any case it seems that Mozilla Firefox developers are getting the hang of it and they are updating their browser to the level of Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge, however Firefox is still heavy Will we see in the next version a lighter browser than current browsers? What do you expect from Mozilla Firefox 50?