Google's New Chrome Browser & Netflix
Google launched a new "Chrome" web browser this week, but it doesn't support drag & drop in the Netflix queue, and it doesn't support streaming movies. You can download the beta for Windows from Google.com/Chrome.

Thanks to Glen for sending this in.

Tried Chrome yesterday and it was impressive. Fast, feature-packed, sleek. But as you said, it is lacking at the Netflix site so I have no need for it until they iron that out. It's pretty nice though except for the privacy policy which um..is a bit spooky. Back to IE7 for movie watching and Opera for general surfing.
Posted by: AnnR | September 04, 2008 at 05:24 PM
FYI, Watch it Now does not work with IE8 too.
Posted by: Del | September 17, 2008 at 03:12 PM
Works on Chrome now if you use
--user-agent="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)"
In the command line (or properties of the shortcut) to start Chrome
Posted by: Dj Gilcrease | February 28, 2009 at 04:01 AM
I got an error stating ActiveX is disabled with the IE user-agent string. Because both Firefox and Chrome don't use ActiveX, I tried the below Firefox user-agent string and it works perfectly:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7
Posted by: Somna | March 15, 2009 at 02:42 PM
Imitating firefox works, but it breaks gmail.
Imitate Safari instead, and this isn't a problem - use this flag:
--user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.19"
Thanks to:
brett.batie.com
Posted by: Will | March 25, 2009 at 08:20 PM
This still doesn't work when starting chrome from a URL shortcut.
Posted by: james | June 27, 2009 at 07:01 PM