Disabling WebGL in Chrome 47

[Tanya Powell]

Hi,

I need to disable WebGL to check whether my canvas rendering functionality works on a mobile web game I'm developing. Do you know WebGL can be disabled in Chrome 47? 

P.s. my team lead says Chrome is no longer developer friendly and I'm starting to agree with him 

[Christian Biesinger]

You can run with --disable-webgl,
https://www.browserleaks.com/webgl#howto-enable-disable-webgl

Out of curiosity, why do you say that Chrome is no longer developer friendly?

-Christian

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[Tanya Powell]

How do I do this via the OS X terminal? 

[Anton Vayvod]

How do you run Chrome from the OS X terminal? Append --disable-webgl to the command line.

E.g. src/out/Debug/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium --disable-webgl

[Tanya Powell]

I tried this `Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/ --disable-webgl` and received `permission denied: Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/` after following the instructions on the Chromium website https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/run-chromium-with-flags 

Because this is not a command as such, sudo doesn't work

[Anton Vayvod]

You need to append the binary name to the directory in your command, it should be something like:

"/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --disable-webgl"

[Tanya Powell]

great! Thanks