Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming and Warns of Non-Secure Websites

Re:Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming and Warns of Non-Secure ... by cJ0th on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @06:07AM (#13480422)

I just upgraded to FF 51 on debian from mozilla.debian.org and when I click your link I get this message: "This demo requires WebGL 2.0 support. Please update to the latest version of Mozilla Firefox."

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Re:Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming and Warns of Non-Secure ... by bzbarsky on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @12:08PM (#13483260)

Just to check, what is the "webgl.enable-webgl2" preference set to in your Debian Firefox? You can use about:config to check this.

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Re:Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming and Warns of Non-Secure ... by cJ0th on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:11PM (#13484089)

Surprisingly, it says "true"

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Re:Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming and Warns of Non-Secure ... by bzbarsky on Thursday January 26, 2017 @01:27AM (#13489179)

OK. What does "window.WebGLRenderingContext" return when evaluated in the console? What about "window.WebGL2RenderingContext"?

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Re:Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming and Warns of Non-Secure ... by cJ0th on Thursday January 26, 2017 @04:00AM (#13489826)

They both print nothing to the console. However, the console greets me with an interesting message:

> Error: WebGL: Failed to create WebGL context: WebGL creation failed: * WebGL 2 requires support for the following features: get_integer64_indexed * Exhausted GL driver options.

Could this have something to do with having the 32 bit version instead of the 64 bit version?

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Re:Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming and Warns of Non-Secure ... by bzbarsky on Friday January 27, 2017 @10:36PM (#13504732)

I'm asking around to see what might be going on, but it's more likely to have to do with the specific graphics card and drivers you have than with 32-bit vs 64-bit.

Does about:support say anything interesting in the "graphics" section?

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Re:Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming and Warns of Non-Secure ... by cJ0th on Saturday January 28, 2017 @09:48AM (#13506502)

There you go: http://imgur.com/R3GVqSx

the "graphic card" would be Intel's HD Graphics...

edit: the problem seems to be (somewhat) debian related. I found this on SE (see first answer):

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/207855/cant-get-int...

EDIT 2: After installing the correct drivers from the backport repository it finally works!! Thanks for your support!

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Re:Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming and Warns of Non-Secure ... by bzbarsky on Monday January 30, 2017 @04:00PM (#13524963)

Excellent!

The day will come when graphics drivers aren't a pain. It really will. I have faith, and have for decades... ;)

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