
Please refer to the next section, which provides steps to do so on several of our supported browsers.
#WEBGL CHROME FOR MAC UPGRADE#
If you see this error message, you may need to upgrade your browser to the latest version, or simply switch to a different browser. Now the bar has been raised, and they need to fit together seamlessly in order to create a reliably fast user experience on the web.This error message indicates that your web browser does not support WebGL, a technology that is required to render maps on AllTrails. In earlier eras of the web, it was a huge achievement to simply make all these features work at all. (This feature has been around for native apps for so long, we just take it for granted, but it wasn’t always that way!)īrowsers already have good isolation from other apps on your computer (thanks to the OS), but within a web page, it can be difficult to isolate all the pieces, such as iframes for ads and other embedded content, video and audio, animations, scrolling, JavaScript, and various other browser tasks. Performance isolation is what allows you to have a nice experience reading your email while music and video is playing in the background: your computer and operating system (OS) architecture makes sure that they all share the CPU fairly and smoothly. Performance isolationThe third key technique is performance isolation. RenderingNG applies novel technologies throughout the stack to make this work, including a complete rewrite of how compositing works, enabling the flexible use of GPU or CPU computations for arbitrary pieces of web pages, in order to pick the right fit for each web page and device. It turns out to be challenging to be able to scale up and scale down seamlessly, and in a way that doesn’t break web content or make the browser unresponsive in key situations. On the other hand, there are times when the browser must scale down because battery life may be considered more important than maximum use of GPU and CPU resources to make rendering faster. As one example of scaling up, it’s important that scrolling happen in parallel with JavaScript on all devices otherwise the browser will have poor user responsiveness. This means that the browser needs to be able to scale up and down its use of the GPU and multi-threading to balance multitasking, battery, and device temperature.

And finally, the browser must always be smooth and responsive to the user.

Likewise, browsers also need to maximize battery life of your phone and laptop, and prevent the device itself from getting too hot (here’s looking at you, CPU cooling fans!). They should not slow down your ability to interact with your computer or phone, or keep you from multitasking between the browser and other apps. Scaling up and scaling downTo avoid exhausting available resources and potentially diminishing the user experience of the web, browsers must be respectful of efficiency.
