Moonlight
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Moonlight was a free and open source implementation of Silverlight, primarily for Linux and other Unix/X11 based operating systems. Moonlight 1.0 was released on January 20, 2009 and 2.0 on December 17, 2009. The preview release of Moonlight 4.0 was released in early 2011.
Users of Moonlight are encouraged to move to Pipelight.
Installation
Mozilla Firefox
From the AUR: Install firefox-moonlight.
Manually: Go to the download page of the Moonlight website and download and install the .xpi
file.
Google Chrome
From the AUR: Install google-chrome-extension-moonlight.
Manually: Installing extensions from outside the Chrome Web Store is disabled by default since Chrome v21.
- Download the Moonlight package for Chrome.
- Make sure no page is currently trying to load Silverlight.
- Go to the "Extensions" page (
chrome://extensions
). - Enable
Developer mode
(top right). - Drag and drop the extension.
Tips and tricks
You may trick the Moonlight plugin to play supposedly unsupported content by editing the Silverlight version number in libmoonpluginxpi.so
.
For Google Chrome:
sed -i 's/4.0.51204.0/4.0.60831.0/g' ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/ldjmcjaammmjjilbjpacphekcgfnmdlk/3.99.0.3_?/moonlight/libmoonpluginxpi.so
For Mozilla Firefox:
sed -i 's/4.0.51204.0/4.0.60831.0/g' ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/extensions/moonlight@novell.com/plugins/moonlight/libmoonpluginxpi.so