Enable WebGL on Chrome or Firefox

WebGL on Chrome

Enable hardware acceleration :

• browse to chrome://settings/advanced
  
• scroll to the bottom and look for Use hardware acceleration when available
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• make sure Use hardware acceleration when available is checked ✓
• if it tells you to then click the relaunch button

Check if webGL is enabled in Chrome

• Copy paste the following in your browser’s address bar chrome://gpu
•  Look for the WebGL item in the Graphics Feature Status list
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• The status will be one of the following:
  1. Hardware accelerated — WebGL is enabled and hardware-accelerated (running on the graphics card).
  2. Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable — WebGL is enabled, but running in software.
  3. Unavailable — WebGL is not available in hardware or software.
• You are looking for the status to be #1 from the above list i.e. Hardware accelerated

WebGL on FireFox

Enable WebGL

• Copy paste the following in your browser’s address bar about:config
  1. you will be asked to accept a scary warning, I am positive this will be ok unless you start going godzilla or the hulk on unrelated settings 🙂 so.. dont do that.
  2. 
• Search for webgl.disabled
• make sure that its value is set to false
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Check WebGL status on FireFox browser

• Copy paste the following in your browser’s address bar about:support
• Inspect the WebGL Renderer row in the Graphics table
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• The status can be either of two things
  1. the name of a  graphics card manufacturer, model and driver i.e. Google Inc. — ANGLE (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0)
  2. Something along the lines of BLocked due to version or Blocked due to unresolved issues.
• Obviously you want #1 as the result i.e. a working webgl.