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Enabling WebGL on Firefox

WebGL is a standard specification that is currently being developed to display 3D graphics in web browsers. The WebGL allows you to enable accelerated 3D graphics hardware on websites.
webGL
Due to security reasons Firefox does not enable WebGL by default. The problem is not in Firefox but many drivers and Graphics cards do not have the full support for OpenGL . The reason it works on Chrome right now is because chrome doesn't have white/black/block-lists currently, as FireFox has.
Mozilla blacklists specific GPUs based on the driver version number, i.e.
  • NVIDIA cards require a driver numbered 8.17.12.5721 or greater
  • AMD/ATI cards are 8.741.0.0 or greater
  • Intel cards normally require 6.14.11 on XP, 7.15.10 on Vista or 8.15.10 on 7 (although some products are completely blocked)
  • Macs require OS version 10.6 or newer
To check if your graphics card is supported or not type following in address bar in your FireFox
about:support
Scroll down to Graphics Section and look for WebGL renderer
aboutsupport
To force enable WebGL (from Mozilla Webpage)
forceenabl
Check out the following site to check:—
http://get.webgl.org/
You should see the following
suppweb
Now if you want to check WebGL is capable of doing
search following into Google
sqrt(x*x+y*y)+3*cos(sqrt(x*x+y*y))+5 from -20 to 20
Here is a screenshot in Chrome
graph
Further Readings and examples:—
http://www.khronos.org/webgl/
http://www.ibiblio.org/e-notes/webgl/webgl.htm
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/tag/tech:webgl/
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/WebGL

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