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With all this WebGL fun that is going around, I find it very annoying that I have to be missing out. I'm on Linux, using the Intel Mesa driver and while they say it on the WebGL support page that I should keep my drivers up to date, it's "too up to date" (7.11.2 and WebGL only works for <=7.9)... I mean, come on!


On chrome you can ignore the video blacklist[1] with '--ignore-gpu-blacklist' flag. My ubuntu only started seeing WebGL after I did this.

[1] http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=4ed2...


A warning: enabling WebGL on a known-bad set of drivers means arbitrary pages can now crash X.

We probably need some "click to play" like feature for WebGL, but it's a terrible user experience: you load a page, you get an offer "do you want to see the stuff yes/no" and sometimes when you click yes your machine hard locks.


It is a fair warning. I've had some bad bugs happening out of it, but most of them are some heavily custom shaders not loading.


There's a reason it's on a blacklist though! It's usually system stability issues, but it could also be security-related. Don't just globally ignore the blacklist without knowing why.


ah, cool, indeed it works! thanks!


Go to about:config, and set webgl.force-enabled to true There is a similar option for chrome/chromium in about:flags.




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