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https://browserleaks.com/webgl has WebGL2 values as well and there are a bunch of them that are different on different platforms/computers ("3.7.2 Setting and getting state" has a good overview of what information is made available with the new WebGL version).
One thing we could do is trying to determine whether we want to bind at least some of those values to our modified minimal mode as well (see #16005 (moved)). But for the time being (i.e. for preparing a 7.0 release) disabling WebGL2 seems to be the best solution. This is done by flipping
webgl.enable-webgl2
tofalse
.See
bug_16404
(https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/gk/tor-browser.git/commit/?h=bug_16404&id=746c4951890769f50bbec2c73193ab31c169b7c2) for that patch. I opened #22333 (moved) for thinking harder about a possible middle-ground between disabling WebGL2 and getting the full fingerprinting flavor.Trac:
Keywords: TorBrowserTeam201705 deleted, TorBrowserTeam201705R added
Status: assigned to needs_review