[Bug 1905054]

[Michaelspohn]

(In reply to Jeff Gilbert [:jgilbert] from comment #12)
> (In reply to michaelspohn from comment #8)
> > (In reply to michaelspohn from comment #7)
> > > (In reply to Pat Suwalski from comment #6)
> > > > Can you guys try the Firefox 84b2 build? I tried it from the tarball and it worked perfectly.
> > > 
> > > No change, still broken on Windows 10...
> > 
> > Fun fact: Chrome 87.0.4280.66 and Edge 87.0.664.47 also do not support WebGL on Google Maps anymore No 3D-View available.
> > The "good old" Internet Explorer 11.1198.18362.0 is the only browser that still works just fine.
> > But hey, it's 2020! What do you expect? 🤣
> 
> It sounds like the Google Maps team started using failIfMajorPerformanceCaveat, but might be going about it in a user-hostile way!
> For Firefox, if you check in the Web Console for that page, if you get a message that mentions failIfMajorPerformanceCaveat, then you can bypass this to restore webgl creation via about:config, by setting "webgl.disable-fail-if-major-performance-caveat" to "true"!
> Does that help for you?

I installed a more recent driver for my graphics card, now the bug is
fixed for me. It seems like Mozilla blocked the old driver because of
crashes. See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1679610

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  Firefox 83 Breaks WebGL

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