{"id":343038,"date":"2017-06-08T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/06\/07\/directv-now-will-only-stream-in-chrome-on-the-web\/21|22131044"},"modified":"2017-06-08T05:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T21:35:00","slug":"directv-now-will-only-stream-in-chrome-on-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/directv-now-will-only-stream-in-chrome-on-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"DirecTV Now will only stream in Chrome on the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We will no longer be supporting Safari or Internet Explorer browsers after June,&#8221; a new notification page reads, &#8220;of course the DirecTV Now app will still be your go-to when streaming on your mobile devices.&#8221; The page includes links to either stay in the current browser or download Google Chrome.<\/p>\n<p>Given Chrome&#8217;s market dominance, the switchover is unlikely to affect too many of DirecTV&#8217;s customers. As the notice says, users should have no problem tuning in via the service&#8217;s mobile or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/05\/30\/directtv-now-streaming-roku\/\">streaming box apps<\/a>. And, finally, after years as the most commonly used browser on the web, users <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2017\/01\/2016-on-the-web-firefox-fights-back-as-microsofts-share-slumps\/\">actually ditching Internet Explorer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/hss\/storage\/midas\/64a1de692c4f32bf9f81af54abe39dcb\/205353153\/directv-now-gallery-ed.jpg\" \/>Heads up, DirecTV subscribers: AT&amp;amp;T&#039;s streaming TV service will drop support for Apple and Microsoft&#039;s baked-in browsers starting at the end of the month. According to Apple Insider, AT&amp;amp;T has already started directing cord-cutting Mac custome&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-343038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}