Open Bug 1784543 Opened 3 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Bucketing of GPU RENDERER strings in SanitizeRenderer is confusing to users

Categories

(Core :: Graphics: CanvasWebGL, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
Graphics: CanvasWebGL
Type:
defect

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People

(Reporter: jgilbert, Unassigned)

References

Details

In bug 1715690, we started bucketing RENDERER strings such that we don't expose as much info about a user's system, to reduce the effectiveness of fingerprinting.

However, this is often confusing, because we make it appear like Firefox is detecting the GPU wrong. (But it's not!)

One option is to sneak "or similar" in, though that risks breaking RENDERER string parsers, vs always giving a valid-but-different RENDERER.

Summary: Bucketing of GPU RENDERER strings is confusing to users → Bucketing/"sanitizing" of GPU RENDERER strings is confusing to users
Summary: Bucketing/"sanitizing" of GPU RENDERER strings is confusing to users → Bucketing of GPU RENDERER strings in SanitizeRenderer is confusing to users
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