So, whenever I try and watch netflix on my Mac, it tells me I need to download Silverlight to enable streaming. I go to try and install Silverlight and my computer not only tells me that I already have Silverlight, but that the Silverlight I have installed is a newer version of the one I'm trying to install. Silverlight not working I've read through the posts here & can't find the answer. I install Silverlight, shows as added program then go back to Netflix to view movie & get the same message to download Silverlight. Silverlight is the browser plug-in that allows you to watch TV shows and movies on your computer. Follow the steps below to install the Silverlight plug-in on your Mac computer. • Open Netflix and select any title to play. • When a Silverlight dialog box opens, select Install Now. • Open the Downloads page and double-click on Silverlight.dmg. • For Safari, the Downloads page is in the upper right corner of the browser. • For Firefox, the Downloads page is a separate window located in the Dock. • For Chrome, the Downloads page is under the Window drop-down in the upper left corner of your browser. • Right-click or hold Control on your keyboard and select Silverlight.pkg. • Select Open on the pop-up menu. • Select Open on the prompt that says Silverlight.pkg is not from the Mac App Store. Are you sure you want to open it? Opening Silverlight.pkg will always allow it to run on this Mac. • Follow the prompts to complete installation. If you complete the steps above but are still being prompted to install Silverlight, see. I've found Silverlight to be resource intensive, but version 5 is supposed to be less so than version 4. Is there anything else running in activity monitor, such as the Spotlight Indexing process? I have a 2008 mac pro with 8 cores and 32 gig of ram and while Silverlight doesn't slow it down much, the fan speeds up a bit when displaying HD in a fairly large window. For what it's worth, Elgato EyeTv HD displaying 720p in a decent sized window does the same thing and has nothing to do with Silverlight. At the end of the day your computer is decompressing a lot of data to display HD video on your screen and it takes some work to do it. Interested in hearing from others on this. Anybody found that MS Silverlight is the culprit for slowing sown Mountain Lion, esp on shutdown? Upgraded to ML no problem and alsoI had a personal policy of no Microsoft software on my mac.(one of the reasons for converting to mac from ms was that I was sick of ms conflicts and endless security updates). Recently decided to upgrade to last version of Flip for mac and the installer for that also had option to install silverlight. Should not have been tempted. Post-silverlight install was when hasd shut down times extended. Didn't immediately twig. Uninstalled silverlight and mac immediately back to previous speeds. Lived without silverlight for 18 months beforehand so cannot see what it adds. Have resumed no MS software on my mac policy. I tried just about every solution I could to fix the problem of Silverlight telling me that there already was a more current version of Silverlight on my computer (a Mac Mini) than what I was trying to load. Netflix told me to remove Silverlight from Hard Drive-->Library--> Internetplug-ins. Other advice I saw also had removals from Library-->Receipts and Library/ApplicationSupport/Microsoft/Silverlight. Althugh this advice may have helped I was still unable to dowload Silverlight because it still told me there already was a more current version of Silverlight on my computer. I was just about to cancel my account with Netflix when I thought I'd try one more thing: I plugged a flash drive into another Apple computer and copied Silverlight from Hard Drive-->Library--> Internetplug-ins and then after ejecting the flash drive went over to the MacMini, and copied Silver light into the MacMini's Hard Drive-->Library--> Internetplug-ins. I'm pleased to report I can watch Netflix again. That said, three Netflix tech support people and one Micosoft tech person all of whom were very polite, but never suggested this approach and I haven't seen it suggested in other user forumes either. I hope it offers some help t others.
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