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They didn't pull the support at all. They've added another driver to a long list of blocklisted drivers that cause issues with the hardware acceleration. Nothi
by r3bl 8y ago
They didn't pull the support at all.
They've added another driver to a long list of blocklisted drivers that cause issues with the hardware acceleration. Nothing about that list is Linux-specific, as it includes a bunch of macOS and Windows drivers as well: https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/gpu/config/software_rendering_list_json.cc https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/gpu/config/...
Firefox does that too: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Blocked_Graphics_Drivers https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Blocked_Graphics_Drive...
Between a crashy browser thanks to a crappy driver and a stable browser without hardware acceleration, browsers will always just take the latter route. Don't like it? Run it with a flag and expect it to be a little less stable. That's it. You absolutely can't blame neither the browser nor the platform for that, only the vendor of the driver (or in this specific case NVidia, since it's actively hostile to the vendor).