Both Google and Mozilla are reacting to recent security problems affecting WebGL, as well as Microsoft’s claims that WebGL is “harmful”.
Google announced that the upcoming Chrome 13 will no longer support cross-domain images and videos to be used as WebGL textures. It was previously discovered that shaders in WebGL could be used to exploit an information leakage vulnerability. Mozilla fixed this issue with the arrival of Firefox 5.0 on June 21.
The issue was described by Microsoft as serious enough to consider WebGL as generally “harmful“. Both Firefox and Chrome were first to support WebGL as a way to accelerate the display of web graphics, IE9 has not adopted the technology yet, but relied on Microsoft’s own Silverlight. However, it appears that Silverlight has similar problems.
Mozilla also announced that it will be releasing an unplanned update for Firefox 5: Version 5.0.1 will be addressing a “serious” crash problem in Firefox 5 that Mac users will encounter when updating to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. The update is being pushed as Lion will be shipping before the availability of Firefox 6.
Firefox 6 is making its way into the beta channel at this time and is expected to be pushed to beta users beginning today. Firefox 6 is expected to deliver more dramatic changes than Firefox 5 did. However, Firefox 7 seems to be shaping up as the big Firefox release this year as it will include Mozilla’s new and faster Azure 2D Graphics API as well as substantial memory improvements.
As some of our users already noticed, Firefox 8 has been released to the nightly builds and can be downloaded from Mozilla’s FTP server.
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