[tor-bugs] #3101 [TorBrowserButton]: Consider disabling WebGL?

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Wed May 4 06:59:22 UTC 2011


#3101: Consider disabling WebGL?
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 Reporter:  mikeperry         |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  defect            |         Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal            |      Milestone:           
Component:  TorBrowserButton  |        Version:           
 Keywords:                    |         Parent:           
   Points:                    |   Actualpoints:           
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 WebGL sure seems like it can be used to extract a whole lot of capability
 info about your video card.. Most modern cards should have all the
 capabilities, so maybe it isn't as bad as it looks, but who knows? We may
 need another panopticlick study to be sure.

 If nothing else, may be usable to fingerprint rendering performance.

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