As reported Netflix now works natively under Linux.

However, some people (including me) reported some troubles under Ubuntu 14.04. After following the described steps by Nathan VanCamp I got an error when opening a video: Error Code: M7063-1913.

When going back to the thread on Google plus Malte Batram reported that Ubuntu 14.04 needed a newer version of libnss for Netflix in Chrome to work.

Therefore I backported the newer version of libnss in Ubuntu Utopic (14.10) to Ubuntu 14.04. This way you can just add a ppa and get the right version of libnss to make Netflix work under Ubuntu.

The steps for getting Netflix to work on Ubuntu are now:

Step 1

Install chrome. I did this by creating /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list and adding this to the file:

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#  # # THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ###
# You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost.
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

Then do an apt-get update and an apt-get dist-upgrade. And finally install the Google Chrome beta: apt-get install google-chrome-beta.

Step 2

Upgrade the nss library:

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:leonbo/nss
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

The above command should upgrade three packages:

• libnss3
• libnss3-1d
• libnss3-nssdb

If you know what you’re doing step 1 and 2 can be combined.

Step 3

Launch Chrome beta and install the the User-Agent Switcher for chrome.

Step 4

Add a custom Chrome agent:

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2049.0 Safari/537.36

I used the values for the other fields:

• New User-agent name: Netflix
• Group: Chrome
• Append?: Replace
• Indicator Flag: NF

Step 5

Switch your user-agent to the new custom one, and go to netflix