Hopefully Google will use their auto-updating first to lock off WebGL by default, and then later return it if later when sanitized. Close and open Chrome again, then test to be sure you got it. Now you can pin Chrome to the Taskbar again while it is running. Then search for it again, and click to start Chrome. Then use search for Google Chrome, and right-click the shortcut (not the exe) that shows in the search. – On Windows 7 if you’ve pinned Chrome to the it can be tricky to find the correct shortcut to modify. If WebGL is successfully disabled, you’ll get a pop-up alert that says ‘Could not initialize WebGL, sorry :-( ‘ – To use the test page, you actually have to load it and then click the big blue Launch Experiment button.
It needs to read dash-dash-disable-dash-webgl. your blog is converting double-dashes to long dash, so that copy-paste of the shortcut command line addition fails. I tried your method, and it needs a few tips at least – especially as it’s getting passed around the web. Right click on Chrome shortcut on the desktop, click Properties append Use to Ctrl+f to find webGL2.0 setting and set it to Disabled.ġ. Visit chrome://flags or chrome://flags/#enable-es3-apisĢ. If you’re desperate to turn off WebGL in Chrome 63 or later versions, you can by installing the below extension.Īfter that you can visit this link to confirm WebGL status in Chrome.ġ. NovemUpdate: Google has added WebGL 2.0 support to Chrome browser in version 56, and offered an option to disable WebGL in flags.įYI, Chromium team has recently removed the WebGL 2.0 flag (#enable-es3-apis) from Chrome 63. These attacks on the GPU via WebGL can render entire machines unusable.” A Security consultancy company Context has more details about the vulanerability in WebGL and the best way to stay secure is to by disabling WebGL in Browsers.Īccording to the page at Context “this vulnerability allows attackers to provide malicious code via a web browser which allows attack on the GPU and graphics drivers. WebGL brings hardware accelerated 3D graphics to the browsers without need of installing additional software. We’ve covered how to disable WebGL in Firefox 4, here is how to disable WebGL in Google Chrome browser. Security researchers identified serious vulnerability in WebGL -which is turned on by default for Firefox and Chrome browsers – allows attackers to run malicious code on users Computers.
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