The latest version of chromium on raspberry pi OS does not work for Netflix. This is because wildvine (DRM software) is broken.

There are a lot of tutorials and advice on how to get this fixed. The two most popular are to use Kodi and to get chromium media edition.

Using media players (like Kodi) seems a bit of overkill when all you want to do is watch via the browser. It’s also quite a messy way that never worked for me.

By far the easiest way I have found (and also works for Disney+ and probably anything else that uses wildvine) although Spotify is a little unpredictable is to install “pi-apps” and use that to install what you need.

It can be found here:

https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps

This little wonder also makes visual code easier an a number of other apps to install.

One thing to remember…

If you install chromium media edition, kill all other chromium processes before you start the media edition.

If you don’t then it won’t work.

Hint – you can use htop, put it into tree mode and send sighup to the root chromium process. htop is also very useful to monitor whats going on in your system. If it’s not already installed the sudo apt install htop.