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

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 4, 2014 @08:31AM 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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Re:What have been my recent experiences? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-03-04 08:52 · Score: 0, Troll

I love how you claim AMD video chipsets suck but somehow put intel in the praise side... intel gpu's are garbage by any reasonable standard AMD cards often boast the best performance.
The fact that linux drivers suck for all 3 (and they do) is sad supporting gpu accelleration should be easy in a market where only 3 product lines tend to exist at a time