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Re:Firefox 55: WebVR and more by fulafel on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @12:19AM (#14965511)
Learning to walk first: do they already have WebGL performance fixed on Linux?

It has been blocked on lack of accelrated compositing for years, ref https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1010527 (less than half the framerate of Chrome on WebGL demos).

It's blocked on this meta-bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594876 which is in turn blocked by many bugs.

Re:Firefox 55: WebVR and more by bigbugbag on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @02:38AM (#14966090)
They don't have WebGL on linux, they have a "webgl if available" thing which is mostly not available.

I've heard that when available (never was on any linux machine I've had in my hands and tested since firefox introduced webgl, after a while I started disabling it to protect from the webgl vulnerabilities), it performs poorly compared to other browsers.

Re:Firefox 55: WebVR and more by fulafel on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @10:14AM (#14969055)
Nowadays it works as widely as on other operating systems, just with the abovementioned performance caveat.