*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1463598 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1463598
First of, thank You, @cmiller, for maintaining this package!
I can understand your motivation to disable GPU rendering in Chromium, but I
suspect that you yourself don't use WebGL apps a lot. I'm a developer, too, and
WebGL is the centerpiece of some of my projects. WebGL is a very useful thing
that I imagine grows in popularity fast. Maybe I'm biased due to my occupation,
but in my opinion, WebGL is a very important feature of Chromium, that should
not be disabled if at all possible. Especially not without any notification to
the users and without any way to turn it back on.
Events like Chromium suddently not having WebGL support any more are
turning people away from using Linux. I think to disable it is a big
mistake and should be reverted immediately. Honestly I'm surprised
there's not more outrage about this. At least use the "Disable WebGL"
flag in chrome://flags - the average user is not gonna turn it back on
themselves.
If you want to prevent crash logs from WebGL surely there must be
another way, like filtering the crash reports for WebGL related issues.
I'm not sure how crash reporting is implemented, but I trust that it
should be doable. By the way, WebGL can be very stable. At least it is
for me. I don't know why it's generating so many crash reports. Maybe
it's bad graphics cards, bad drivers or bad code, but it's not like
WebGL itself is unusable or very unstable for everyone.
I'm wondering why it's only Chromium giving you so many crash reports.
Do Firefox and Chrome not report crashes, are they less used, handling
crashes internally or just not crashing in the first place?
I hope this can be resolved soon.
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