Might be that the version of firefox I was using (since it's a lab machine) is outdated. Wasm is right now bleeding edge technology, so it's going to be a bit of a weird side for a while as machines are updated for compatibility

Yeah, I'm guessing that too. When I load the page in firefox my new ubuntu 16 machine randomly freezes, had to reset and update the drivers suspecting it was some hardware/driver issue. However, chrome is working pretty well.