Firefox 51 To Enable WebGL 2 By Default, FLAC Audio, Skia Content Rendering On Linux

[Marc Driftmeyer]

It should be renamed to GoogleGL. Pretty much nothing but Google uses it.

Safari has WebGL 2 in their impending 10.1 which nearly matches Firefox 50 in overall HTML5test.com specs. It won't just be for Google.

[Tomin]

Safari has WebGL 2 in their impending 10.1 which nearly matches Firefox 50 in overall HTML5test.com specs. It won't just be for Google.

I think he meant that Google has the only web pages that use it, which AFAIK is not true. They may be the most visible user, but certainly not the only one. Wait, I have no idea how Google uses WebGL, but I know that some other sites (e.g. Github and Shapeways) use it to show STL files (file format used a lot in 3D printing) in browser.

[starshipeleven]

Wait, I have no idea how Google uses WebGL,

I think Google Maps (the 3D view) or something.

[89c51]

Skia rendering means the HW acceleration will be on by default??

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Yes Google Maps 3D and some experiments: https://www.chromeexperiments.com/webgl

Others:

http://www.webglearth.org/

[Slartifartblast]

Welcome to Google Firefox...

Google have paid hundreds of millions of dollars to fund the Mozilla foundation, they've own Mozilla's ass for quite some time.

[trek]

Does that mean Firefox 51 will play slither.io (a 2D javascript/canvas, maybe, game) better than Firefox 50 does?

what an addicting game!

[uid313]

In my limited experience, Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge performs better than Firefox when it comes to WebGL.

Problems I find with Firefox.

• All too common on startup with "Well this is embarrassing, Firefox is having trouble recovering your tabs".
• No support for input type=date, time and datetime.
• Developer tools lack support for inspecting messages over WebSockets and Server-Sent Events.
• Video playback problems on YouTube. Videos not starting, having to reload the page several times.
• No support for Wayland.

[andreano]

Problems I find with Firefox.
1. All too common on startup with "Well this is embarrassing, Firefox is having trouble recovering your tabs".
2. No support for input type=date, time and datetime.
3. Developer tools lack support for inspecting messages over WebSockets and Server-Sent Events.
4. Video playback problems on YouTube. Videos not starting, having to reload the page several times.
5. No support for Wayland.

1. I'll second that.
4. YouTube works great for me (I'm not using Flash of course).
5. I'm writing this in Firefox in Wayland. Tip: Enable XWayland. The only problem is that Weston will crash if you try to reorder the tabs.

[89c51]

5. I'm writing this in Firefox in Wayland. Tip: Enable XWayland. The only problem is that Weston will crash if you try to reorder the tabs.

We need native wayland support. Along a shitload of other stuff in linux.

A guy from red hat (??) has written patches for it but none of them has been merged upstream.