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Do you have a source for this?

This page disagrees:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Blocked_Graphics_Drive...

My unmodified Firefox stable channel on Linux has WebGL enabled OOTB and my distro does not have any specific flags specified for WebGL (or GL in general) in the package.




The page you linked to says:

> GL layers acceleration is not yet enabled by default (see bug 594876). You can enable it by setting layers.acceleration.force-enabled=true in about:config.

That means off by default. Also maybe relevant is that I'm on the Firefox Graphics team so I have some knowledge of this.

If you want to verify, download a stock Firefox build from Mozilla, run it on a new profile, and check what it says for Compositing in the Graphics section. OpenGL means acceleration, Basic means software.


That should say "... Graphics section of about:support"




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