I just installed Fedora yesterday, and I can’t get any widevine media (crave, amazon etc) to play. The day before, I was playing this media fine on Ubuntu.
Because it doesn’t work in any browser I’ve tried, I believe it is based on an underlying problem, and not in the browsers themselves (though it’s still possible the browsers are at fault).
I made sure ffmpeg and a bunch of codecs were installed, but still no luck.
I started looking in to that further, but then I just tried installing the standard Firefox browser, instead of the Fedora special edition, and the standard one works fine.
So, I guess this is a bug? I certainly wouldn’t be okay with one of my apps not working and causing crashes by default. Does Fedora or Mozilla (or someone else) handle this “Firefox for Fedora” browser?
That is enabled by default, but I did check it to be sure!
I also see you’re not running the Fedora specific build of Firefox, which is the one with the problem. This is exactly why I’m not a fan of distro-specific builds.
I was taught that every abstraction layer (or fork, or whatever) is another place for bugs to live, and it keeps proving to be true.
That is because I took that screenshot on a machine that wasn’t running fedora at that moment. I multi-boot different distros on that workstation.
Does fedora have a fork of firefox? Are you sure it isn’t just being built by Fedora? Almost every package on every Linux distro is being built by the package maintainers for that distro.
That being said, if you want a version that is built by Mozilla, grab the Firefox flatpak from flathub.
The wildvine plugin now seems to be working in Firefox for Fedora, though I’m not exactly sure why.
I suspect it may be due to me installing the standard build from Mozilla. Surely that installed some dependencies; I see some .so files with the binaries.