Question: I just installed 14.04 LTS on my laptop. I tried to go on Netflix but it tells me to install silverlight but that does not work either. What are my options to get Netflix working on my laptop?

Answer: 
Please check this:

[Now that I have Firefox 49, how do I watch Netflix?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/828286/now-that-i-have-firefox-49-how-do-i-watch-netflix)

With firefox 49 and for now, changing the user-agent to a recent chrome version, netflix do work in firefox on linux
**Netflix via Google**

The quick answer... Install [Google Chrome](https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/). Netflix works naively on Ubuntu via Google's Builtin Netflix support.

**Netflix via Netflix Desktop**

Download the tar package from [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/netflix-desktop). A direct link to the current package is [Version 0.8.7](https://launchpad.net/netflix-desktop/trunk/0.8.7/+download/netflix-desktop.tar.gz).
Extract the package. From the package directory run this these commands:

```
$ make
$ sudo make install

```

After that you can run `Netflix` seemlessly from Ubuntu's launch button.

**Netflix Via Firefox**  

(tricky... in beta still being developed)

To upgrade to the latest version of Firefox from the developers repository perform these steps:

```
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

```

For Netflix change Firefox mode to User Agent mode, Google.