Netflix won't go into full screen mode in Firefox.

I see that we still do not have a REAL solution from this problem with netflix not going fullscreen but are still making it work with a WORK AROUND.

I got an email from Silverlight about this issue recently, and they claim it is a NetFlix problem and nothing to do

with them. NetFlix so far has not replied.

dear friend can you rephrase your question you talk about everything and nothing at the same time trying to be more explicit and short like that are able to give you advice if you have any advice for you.

regarding the new lion I advise you to wait before you can try it, it seems that it is a heavy can rest on the former for now

I turned off "automatic graphics switching" and now I can view fullscreen Netflix movies in Safari. Thanks to you helpful people!

That seems to be the best result for now, the only down side is it drains your battery quicker.

Apple seems to have decalred war on Netflix.

It's extremely buggy now to play Netflix on a Mac.

I hope not, if would just shooting itself in the foot since Netflix seems to work just fine in other products.

Apple TV having Netflix connection issues, and Mac's needing a work around to go full screen on Netflix seems to speak bad more about Apple than it does about netflix as far as it working properly that is.

I would not be surprised to see Apple or Amazon taking over Netflix. They are spiining off the DVD rental portion, and there stock has taken a dump since the 60% price increase, this would make NetFlix cheap to somebody with deep pockets.

@OzziesMAC

I am old enough that I was there when Apple was first created and came out with their products.

I have seen them do stuff that just disgusted me.

Steve Wozniak (brains behind Apple) couldn't take it anymore from Steve J.

So he left the company.

I am glad Apple didn't take over Sony.

Now a days when I buy a Apple product I feel I am supporting a evil entity.

Even here on this forum, Apple mods censor comments unflattering to them.

Why don't you guys start complaining more? Apple has come a long way. Have you ever heard of this search engine called "google"? If you have a problem or issue or even a simple question with your Apple hardware or software, and you know how to type, you can do what has been known in the past few years as a "google search" and find answers.

Chances are, you aren't the first person to experience issues or frustration caused by the computer age.

Get out to the woods for a while, and don't take your computer with you. It's worth it.

Too many Apple employees and Apple fanboys trolling these woods.

Don't forget Apple stockholders, of which I am one. I've always been an "Apple fanboy", did work for Apple for some time and bought a lot of stock 5 years ago, so it's nice to be rolling in the no-work-all-pay dough!

Plus I know more than you do.

I used to be a stock holder of APple myself, there is nothing in the stock holders report that is enlightnening.

You know no more then anyone else, get off your high horse.

5 year chart, bud... Yeah, I'd say my horse is pretty high, but I ain't getting off it.

MultiplePerspectives wrote:

Too many Apple employees and Apple fanboys trolling these woods.

Again?

No-one was listening the other times

Who said anything about stock trends.

Your knowledge as a holder is no more then anyone else.

Csounds... you have a serious personality disorder.

I cannt help you.

Here's my attempt to get this topic back on track. I'm sure there are PLENTY of "Apple is the devil's brand" discussions out there, but people who DO Google for their computer issues land here when they have a Neflix+fullscreen+Mac problem, so let's talk about that.

This is where I'm at...

MBP stats:

mid-2010 17"

OS X 10.7.1

2.66 GHz i7

8GB RAM

500GB HDD

Firefox 6.0.2

gfxCardStatus v2.1

In the Firefox preferences, I have "Use hardware acceleration when available" UNCHECKED. There was a workaround that said to check this box, but what happens when I leave it checked is the gfx card starts off in D (discrete), and switches quickly to I (integrated) and back to D which is when the flickering happens. Now, if I uncheck this box, Firefox starts up and the gfx card is in I. When I fullscreen Netflix, it'll change to D but the video won't go to fullscreen. Then, I click fullscreen AGAIN and it goes.

When I open Firefox in I and go to YouTube, it switches to D because there's Flash on the page (my assumption). Everything on YouTube works fine. So considering all of this, I'm inclined to say that it is very much a Silverlight problem. Looks like Firefox can switch the gfx card, or allow it's plugins (if written correctly) to switch the gfx cards...Flash does it. Silverlight seems to struggle with this. Someone on here wrote that Silverlight just blamed Netflix, so if only we could get Netflix to just pass on Silverlight and go to Flash. I don't know how that would affect mobile iDevices though...haven't looked into that.

Cliff's notes:

- Using gfxCardStatus, different scenarios, and changing Firefox's "Use hardware acceleration when available" setting, it looks like there's a bug in Silverlight that won't change the gfx card when it needs to.

- Flash makes the cards switch just fine.

- Everyone should complain to Netflix and hope that they'll just drop Silverlight since Silverlight seems to not WANT to do anything about this.