You may need to accept a license agreement for a set of fonts during the installation. You can easily install it by running below commands in terminal ( Ctrl+Alt+T) one by one: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable The Pipelight PPA is available for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 and their derivatives. This may slow down the start of your browser.

Pipelight needs to start Wine to execute the pluginloader.

Silverlight might contain (like all other browser plugins) security issues – You may want to enable click-to-play for this plugin to prevent an undesired start of Silverlight.

It is strongly recommended to close your browser before installing! Some browsers try immediately to load the plugin which might fail or crash the browser when the installation is not complete!.

Warning: Before you continue the installation you should note that: As a user you will not notice anything from that “magic” and you can simply use Silverlight the same way as on Windows, like you can see on the following screenshot: Only the initialization parameters and (sometimes) the network traffic is send through them.

The used pipes do not have any big impact on the speed of the rendered video since all the video and audio data is not send through the pipe. When you open a page with a Silverlight application the library will send all commands from the browser through a pipe to the Windows process and act like a bridge between your browser and Silverlight.

The Windows program, called pluginloader.exe, simply simulates a browser and loads the Silverlight DLLs. Pipelight consists out of two parts: A Linux library which is loaded into the browser and a Windows program started in Wine. Hoover with a new browser plugin that embeds Silverlight directly in any Linux browser supporting the Netscape Plugin API. The project combines the effort by Erich E. Pipelight is a special browser plugin allows to run your favorite Silverlight application directly inside your Linux browser.

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