Moonlight was a free and open-source Mono-based implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight technology, developed by Novell.
More information regarding Moonlight, including support and compatibility, can be found at this Wikipedia article.
Questions tagged [moonlight]
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Is there an equivalent of Silverlight?
I need Silverlight installed on my Ubuntu system, so that I can see some of the Microsoft websites(mainly videos).
Are there any alternatives to Silverlight in Ubuntu? If so, what are they and how do I install them?
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Moonlight extension not working with new Firefox versions
The web browser I use is Firefox (currently in version 8 in Oneiric).
According the Compatibility Check information the Moonlight extension is not compatible with FF8. Anyway, I enabled this extension using the AddOn Compatibility Reporter. And,…
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how can I install moonlight for Chrome in 12.04?
I'd like to install the latest Moonlight version to use it with Google Chrome (not Chromium)
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How to use Moonlight to play videos on rtlmost.hu?
In Hungary, the biggest TV channel is RTL Klub, they has a video archive site. They use Silverlight instead of Flash :( What is annoying, they use the lastest version of Silverlight, about 4.x. But Moonlight doesn't support it yet.
I've been tried…
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How to enable Moonlight?
Even after I've installed all the Mono packages, I am still asked to install Silverlight when I visit Silverlight-enabled web pages.
Even after I agreed to do this and installed the Moonlight Firefox extension from http://go-mono.com/moonlight/,…
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How to install Microsoft Silverlight on Firefox on 12.04?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit on my system. I am using Mozilla Firefox 37.0 and Google Chrome 41.0 browsers.
I went to http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows-10/about in both browsers. In Chrome I could see the content on the webpage…
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How to enable Moonlight/Silverlight 5 on firefox?
I have installed moonlight from this post here: https://askubuntu.com/a/327862/188878
the problem is, the application/website I am trying to use "requires" silverlight 5. is there anyway to trick the website into thinking I have silverlight 5 so…
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Moonlight stopped working on tvp.pl
I'm watching The Bold and the beautiful on the site:
http://www.tvp.pl/seriale/obyczajowe/moda-na-sukces/wideo
Yesterday I wanted to view next episode, however it didn't work. I checked various episodes from other points in time and none works. The…
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How to watch eurosport player?
They use silverlight -- therefore I installed moonlight but still get a black screen.
Is there a way to watch it on Ubuntu? I now use a virtual (windows xp) machine so I can still watch it, but would like to know it there are possibilities.
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Unable to install silverlight in Ubuntu 16.04 after using tutorial from multiple sites
I have followed these procedures:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ehoover/compholio
sudo update
sudo apt install wine-staging
sudo apt install --install-recommends pipelight-multi
sudo pipeline-plugin…
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slow pipelight silverlight
I've using Pipelight to stream Silverlight videos from one of the Polish sites: http://onet.tv. The vidoes are jerky though and can't keep up with the streaming. Any ideas how can I debug it? I'm using ubuntu 14.04, long support one.
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Moonlight/Silverlight - is it still working
I know that this question (how open Silverlight/Moonlight web pages in Ubuntu?) has been asked million of times, but it seems that no one of this solutions works for me.
Even if I added legacy repositories, I'm still unable to install Moonlight…
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How to add Silverlight to Chrome in 12.04?
How to add Silverlight to Chrome in 12.04? I found a couple of guides to add Moonlight plugin to Chrome browser, but nothing that works as of yet.
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How to enable Silverlight on Chrome 39 or newer
I know, that this question was asked and answered too many times, but I tried almost everything and nothing seems to work in any version newer than 39 of Chrome.
Pipelight doesn't seem to work since Chrome removed NPAPI support in version 35,…
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Microsoft Media Pack for Moonlight
I recently reinstalled my computer, a few days ago. Now I have to watch a video lecture. To watch these you need Silverlight. So I installed Moonlight. Now Moonlight needs the Microsoft Media Pack which is provided by Microsoft indeed. Microsoft, on…
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