[tor-bugs] #16005 [Tor Browser]: webgl.min_capability_mode might be too minimal

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#16005: webgl.min_capability_mode might be too minimal
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     Reporter:           |      Owner:  mikeperry
  mikeperry              |     Status:  needs_review
         Type:  defect   |  Milestone:
     Priority:  normal   |    Version:
    Component:  Tor      |   Keywords:  tbb-fingerprinting, tbb-usability-
  Browser                |  website, ff38-esr, tbb-5.0a-highrisk,
   Resolution:           |  TorBrowserTeam201506R, MikePerry201506,
Actual Points:           |  GeorgKoppen201506R
       Points:           |  Parent ID:
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Comment (by gk):

 After some back and forth it seems there are some issues with my old OS X
 system using the ESR 38 based Tor Browser. Might be a more general bug in
 our toolchain or something only happening locally. I'll file a ticket as
 soon as we have an alpha I can point to. On Windows 7 on a different
 computer it is working fine for me.

 The code looks good, I think, but I have two questions:

 1) I am a bit worried about not disabling the highp precision. Are we sure
 that all GPUs support it? It seems to be optional:
 https://community.arm.com/groups/arm-mali-graphics/blog/2013/05/29
 /benchmarking-floating-point-precision-in-mobile-gpus (while this post is
 mobile specific it might apply to the desktop world as well).

 2) Could you add a comment explaining what these *ALIASED*RANGE things are
 for (given that these are not existing in vanilla code) and what |1,
 MINVALUE_GL_ALIASED_LINE_WIDTH_RANGE| and |1,
 MINVALUE_GL_ALIASED_POINT_SIZE_RANGE| mean in this context? One might
 think that they make values in these ranges (1-5 and 1-255) acceptable
 which might depend on user configuration/hardware which is not the case I
 guess. Having some explanatory remarks might help understanding this part.

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