Friday, December 16, 2011

Err: WebGL not worked with Chrome 15 in Ubuntu 11.10

Error:
              WebGL is not enabled for your browser.

Common Reasons & Solutions
:

              This will occur in some sites that contains rich contents like 3D web graphics. In Google Chrome build (15.xx) after updating the Ubuntu 11.10 makes this error due to many reasons. Some of them are,


Chrome extensions that blocks webGL
              Adblock extension for Chrome may cause the error. For that,
  • Remove or disable the extension for while and restart the browser once.
By default not Enabled by the Browser 
              If it is not enabled by default, pass it as argument at run time.
  • In Windows,
    • chrome.exe --enable-webgl
  • In Linux
    • ./chromium-browser --enable-webgl
Graphics card not detected or not configured well 
              In this case, we need to use different parameter as an argument. This is only for Linux.
  • Using terminal,
    • ./chromium-browser --ignore-gpu-blacklist
  • Using main menu,
    • Edit "Main Menu -> Internet -> chrome" link. Then click the properties on right side and add the parameter as argument in the application input box after the program name like "/usr/bin/chromium-browser %U --ignore-gpu-blacklist".

Note: This is tested under Ubuntu 11.10.

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