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I honesty could care less about having Netflix/Hulu type support built into XBMC, (that's a fool's errand IMO because it will break constantly) but I'm curious if there is a simple way to simply launch a Firefox window with the appropriate url from withing XBMC? That to me would be acceptable and would not be unlike the way we view content already. Is this easy to script or is there a good plugin etc?
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Actually, Hulu has been surprisingly stable for the last few months (knock on wood).
For Netflix there was that one add-on that would let you browse Netflix's selection in XBMC, then directly launch the browser to show that movie in full screen. XBMC Flicks or something like that. Hasn't been updated in forever, though.
For Hulu I would just launch the Hulu Desktop app, since it works great with a remote control.
I'd use something like
Add-on:Advanced Launcher (wiki). Check some of the guides for Advanced Launcher, too, because I bet it will launch URLs as well.
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Thank you very much Angelscry, as I suspected I had missed a step in the process (specifically, I need to add my Program Files folders to be a 'source', otherwise there was no way to browse to the program I wanted to launch in Advanced Launcher. It works fine now but just as a suggestion its very non-intuitive from an end-user's perspective that it works this way because it doesn't work like that in the rest of XBMC that you cannot see your local drive by default.
I have one more question. Is it possible for me to assign my newly created launcher to appear as an option under the main menu of XBMC? In other words, say I created a launcher called 'Browser'. Right now I have to first select Programs, then Advanced Launcher then Browser to launch it. Is there a way to make it a shortcut that appears as a sub-menu on the main XBMC front page?
thanks you very much for your help