Ubuntu – Webgl unavailable on Chromium but works well on Google Chrome

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I use Tinkercad for my project work. On Windows 8.1, I had no issues in accessing the site from Chromium. On the other hand, Chromium on my Ubuntu 16.04 laptop, doesn't support the site. I tried out this solution, but in vain.

I have also installed Google Chrome and things work fine from there. No issues at all…

I performed some tests on chromium and got the following results.
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and also,

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The chrome://gpu lists the following lines.
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About Chromium:
Version 55.0.2883.87 Built on Ubuntu , running on Ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit)

Best Answer

Ok, so I found a solution to my problem. As I mentioned that I have installed both, Chromium as well as Chrome, I checked the chrome://flash page.
It mentioned Nvidia as Driver vendor, GL_VENDOR, GL_RENDERER for Chromium.
And for Chrome it mentions:

Driver vendor Mesa
Driver version 11.2.2
GL_VENDOR Intel Open Source Technology Center
GL_RENDERER Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile
GL_VERSION 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 11.2.2

I had installed Chromium when I had Nvidia Graphics Driver. But then I removed it as it caused issues. So, the Chromium was unable to locate it.

I simply uninstalled Chromium using the following commands and reinstalled it. Things are working perfectly now.

sudo apt remove chromium-browser
rm -rf ~/.cache/chromium
rm -rf ~/.config/chromium
sudo rm -rf /etc/chromium-browser

The chrome://gpu/ page shows the following output.

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