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In Firefox 6 and newer, we manage to safely get driver information, so we are able to whitelist the good drivers. The following drivers are whitelisted: | In Firefox 6 and newer, we manage to safely get driver information, so we are able to whitelist the good drivers. The following drivers are whitelisted: | ||
* Free Mesa-based drivers are whitelisted if the Mesa version is at least 7.10 | * Free Mesa-based drivers are whitelisted if the Mesa version is at least 7.10. | ||
** In Firefox 6 only, Gallium3D drivers are blacklisted (see {{bug|624935}}). In Firefox 7 and newer, Gallium3D is no longer blacklisted. | |||
* For the NVIDIA driver, versions 257.21 and newer are whitelisted, exactly like on Windows (see above). | * For the NVIDIA driver, versions 257.21 and newer are whitelisted, exactly like on Windows (see above). | ||
* For the FGLRX (proprietary ATI) driver, we whitelist the newer versions that implement OpenGL 3.0 or newer. Indeed, FGLRX does not return any version number of its own, so we had to use the OpenGL version as a differentiator. | * For the FGLRX (proprietary ATI) driver, we whitelist the newer versions that implement OpenGL 3.0 or newer. Indeed, FGLRX does not return any version number of its own, so we had to use the OpenGL version as a differentiator. | ||