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Google Won't Enable Chrome Video Acceleration Because of Linux GPU Bugs

Posted by Soulskill on from the off-the-poorly-rendered-table dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Citing 'code we consider to be permanently "experimental" or "beta,"' Google Chrome engineers have no plans on enabling video acceleration in the Chrome/Chromium web browser. Code has been written but is permanently disabled by default because 'supporting GPU features on Linux is a nightmare' due to the reported sub-par quality of Linux GPU drivers and many different Linux distributions. Even coming up with a Linux GPU video acceleration white-list has been shot down over fear of the Linux video acceleration code causing stability issues and problems for Chrome developers. What have been your recent experiences with Linux GPU drivers?"

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  1. Re:Permenant Beta by ficuscr · · Score: 3, Funny

    or Google Nose? https://www.google.com/landing...

  2. Re:Permenant Beta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's not to like? Now I get new Google Maps that take several seconds to load in Chrome. That's progress compared with the instant loading that plagued the tile-map version...

  3. If only... by fph+il+quozientatore · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, if only a large company like, say, Google would adopt the drivers and support their development...

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  4. Re:What have been my recent experiences? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    2014: The coming of the retard fanboys

  5. Re:Like the good ole days by Talderas · · Score: 3, Funny

    In other news. Twitch Plays Pokemon beat the game in 18 days. Meanwhile Linux GPU driver support is still shit.

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