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I gave your instructions a go with 47.0.1 and got Firefox built. Interestingly, it kept telling me it was "downloading and installing components required for playback" whenever I visited the Shaka page - at which point it would delete the entire contents of the 1.4.8.885 directory and fail to play anything (the manifest and library file would be deleted).

To fix this, I made root own the 1.4.8.885 directory and set the permissions so that my user could only read/execute files (and not remove them) sudo chmod a-w 1.4.8.885. This made the Shaka player work with Widevine. Maybe this step could be mentioned in the instructions?

Amazon refuses to work if it thinks I'm using Firefox and tells me to install Chrome. If I spoof the UA it works, though it won't stream in HD:

Netflix also works if I spoof my UA (though just like Chrome everything is limited to 720p):

Just wanted to give a huge thanks for publishing the instructions and offer a "this works for me too". Hopefully if anyone else gets stuck with Firefox deleting all the files in the profile folder, this issue will also offer a solution.

Cheers!

I recompiled firefox-44.0.1 with firefox.patch, except that 2nd chunk of the 1st file in the patch (dom/media/eme/EMEUtils.cpp) did not apply. But I cannot play test video from https://shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/. Tried both with and without LD_PRELOAD. I put libwidevine.so and widevine.info to /a/firefox/gmp-widevine/1 and launched FF with command:
MOZ_GMP_PATH=/a/firefox/gmp-widevine/1 firefox