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[Emmeran <emmeran@xxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1463598 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1463598

First of, thank You, @cmiller, for maintaining this package!
I can understand your motivation to disable GPU rendering in Chromium, but I suspect that you yourself don't use WebGL apps a lot. I'm a developer, too, and WebGL is the centerpiece of some of my projects. WebGL is a very useful thing that I imagine grows in popularity fast. Maybe I'm biased due to my occupation, but in my opinion, WebGL is a very important feature of Chromium, that should not be disabled if at all possible. Especially not without any notification to the users and without any way to turn it back on.

Events like Chromium suddently not having WebGL support any more are
turning people away from using Linux. I think to disable it is a big
mistake and should be reverted immediately. Honestly I'm surprised
there's not more outrage about this. At least use the "Disable WebGL"
flag in chrome://flags - the average user is not gonna turn it back on
themselves.

If you want to prevent crash logs from WebGL surely there must be
another way, like filtering the crash reports for WebGL related issues.
I'm not sure how crash reporting is implemented, but I trust that it
should be doable. By the way, WebGL can be very stable. At least it is
for me. I don't know why it's generating so many crash reports. Maybe
it's bad graphics cards, bad drivers or bad code, but it's not like
WebGL itself is unusable or very unstable for everyone.

I'm wondering why it's only Chromium giving you so many crash reports.
Do Firefox and Chrome not report crashes, are they less used, handling
crashes internally or just not crashing in the first place?

I hope this can be resolved soon.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1466670

Title:
  WebGL Not Working

Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
  like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/43.0.2357.81 Chrome/43.0.2357.81
  Safari/537.36

  Steps to reproduce the problem:
  1. Visit https://get.webgl.org/
  2. Shows WebGL Disabled
  3. Look in `chrome://flags/`
  4. Look for `Disable WebGL`, this is showing WebGL as enabled

  What is the expected behavior?
  WebGL works

  What went wrong?
  Can't use sites that use WebGL

  Did this work before? Yes on 6/10/2015 was the last day it worked

  Chrome version: 43.0.2357.81  Channel: stable
  OS Version: Ubuntu 14.04
  Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 16.0 r0

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