Ask HN: What will happen to Amazon Video?

[Meiscooldude]

Chrome's set to be disabling npapi soon (less than a week most likely).

This will mean Amazon Prime's Instant Video, which uses Silverlight, will not work for chrome users unless they:

1. Know chrome has disabled npapi, because a webpage with silverlight doesn't inform you its disabled, it just asks you to install silverlight. (Try watching prime in chrome beta, it just asks you to install silverlight)

2. Know how to re-enable npapi (through a temporary workaround), or that they can switch to a different browser (or downgrade chrome).

I haven't seen any comment from Amazon about this upcoming issue, and haven't seen any alternatives to silverlight for it. Anyone know what might happen?

[byoung2]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/settings?ie=UTF8&ref_=ya_man...

You can select Adobe Flash Player instead, and avoid Silverlight entirely