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This works great in Firefox 11. It doesn't work in Chrome 18 which has WebGL disabled (on Linux).

EDIT: I really doesn't work because "NVIDIA cards with nouveau drivers in Linux are crash-prone." Firefox has no trouble, strangely.

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> 3D charts require a web browser and system that support WebGL.

Courtesy of Firefox 11.

(edit) Apparently webgl.force-enabled needs to be set to true in about:config, and then it works.

Thanks for this tip.

It wasn't working in Firefox 6, but then flipping the flag fixed it.

This works great in Firefox 11. It doesn't work in Chrome 18 which has WebGL disabled (on Linux).

I am also using Firefox on Linux and was actually suprised this worked. I assumed WebGL was still disabled by default for us.

Nope it's been on for a while but it will only work if you have good OpenGL drivers. (About ~50% of Linux users who try are able to view WebGL content from mozilla's numbers).

OSX 10.7 and Chrome 18 is OK.

Works fine in Safari too. Don't forget to Enable WebGL in the Develop menu (itself activated in the Advanced tab of Safari's Preferences)

After fiddling with about:flags and using --ignore-gpu-blacklist on the command line, I got chrome://gpu to report that WebGL is fully enabled. It _still_ doesn't work, with this error reported in the console:

    [75:75:1827873622829:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy.cc(110)] Could not send GpuCommandBufferMsg_Initialize.

I suppose you need the latest mesa and drm. It works great here, but I'm running code from git.

I have Chromium 17 on Ubuntu (WebGl desactivated) and it works.

Not working in Opera 11.62

Shame that my favourite browser doesn't support WebGL. :( But props to Google for making their search engine that much cooler.

If you want to see it with Opera try the 12 alpha. Just did and it is working perfectly.

> It doesn't work in Chrome 18 which has WebGL disabled (on Linux).

Chrome 18 on Ubuntu 11.04 with real crappy Intel Mobile 4 Chipset and it works.

Ubuntu 11.10 and Firefox 11. Works like a charm.

Same here. Chrome doesn't.

However, since it's on an eeePC netbook the animations way to slow to be useful.

It works for me in Chrome 18 under Ubuntu 12.04.

You can enable it in about:flags

Actually the thing in about:flags to to "enable" the "disabling" of WebGl.

No, you need to disable the disabling. Still doesn't work for me, though.

>It doesn't work in Chrome 18 which has WebGL disabled (on Linux).

WebGL is definitely not disabled. You either disabled it or your GPU is not on the whitelist (or is on the blacklist).

According to chrome://gpu:

>WebGL: Unavailable. Hardware acceleration unavailable

Chrome sadness.

I will say it's strange that Chrome thinks your computer is incapable but Firefox 11 is able to perform the task. It may be a bug with Chrome worth looking into.

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