Chromium is the development version of Chrome , right? Sort of like Fedora is to RHEL, right? So the Chromium support you mention should be coming to Chrome sooner or later.
>From what I've been able to work out the reason it doesn't yet work in Chrome but does work in Firefox/Chromium is as follows (please bear in mind I am not am expert but have simply tried to learn through a bit of research online). Although Chrome/Chromium/Firefox use WebGL which is based on OpenGL ES, I have learned from reading Mozilla bug reports that there is more than one way to execute a command in an OpenGL program. There are a variety of ways a browser can ask the drivers to do the work, via various driver functions. This seems to consist of a variety of alternative and fallback functions and paths in the drivers if the requested function is not implemented in the driver or is not supported on the hardware. Some of these fallbacks will be slower than the originally requested function. My guess is that Google has only implemented some these alternatives and fallbacks recently. Of course Mesa's radeon drivers (r300g and r600g, particularly the latter which is for the newer R600 and later cards) could also be improved and extended to support the functions currently being requested by Chrome. But this is only my best guess and I don't have any evidence to support my hypothesis. Google could probably tell you and as I said earlier I would assume that they have already talked to ATI/AMD about this for the binary fglrx (Catalyst) driver and to the kernel, Mesa and DDX developers about this for the open-source radeon drivers. Anyway it seems that support is on it's way. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685321 Title: webgl doesn't work with chrome To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-driver-ati/+bug/685321/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
