Chromium and bumblebee not working

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For some reason, WebGL is not working in chromium. I’ve got an Intel HD and a NVIDIA GTX 850M. I can use both GPU’s (nvidia using optirun) in Firefox just fine. In chromium however, it crashes (see output of chrome://gpu below)
I tried to disable gpu blacklisting but that didn’t work. The only solution is to run chromium --disable-gpu-sandbox. This way, WebGL is available but for some reason it is much slower than in Firefox (both without optirun) and there is an annoying chrome popup to tell me that --disable-gpu-sandbox is not officially supported. Combining this with optirun (optirun chromium --disable-gpu-sandbox) and running some heavy WebGL applications causes flickering while this is not present in Firefox.
How can I use my GPU in chromium without nasty hacks?

**chrome://gpu
**Graphics Feature Status

  • Canvas: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
  • Flash: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
  • Flash Stage3D: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
  • Flash Stage3D Baseline profile: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
  • Compositing: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
  • Rasterization: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
  • Threaded Rasterization: Unavailable
  • Video Decode: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
  • Video Encode: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
  • WebGL: Unavailable

Driver Bug Workarounds

  • clear_uniforms_before_first_program_use
  • count_all_in_varyings_packing
  • disable_post_sub_buffers_for_onscreen_surfaces
  • init_gl_position_in_vertex_shader
  • init_vertex_attributes
  • use_current_program_after_successful_link

Problems Detected

  • GPU process was unable to boot: GPU access is disabled in chrome://settings.
    Disabled Features: all
  • Always call glUseProgram after a successful link to avoid a driver bug: 349137
    Applied Workarounds: use_current_program_after_successful_link
  • Program link fails in NVIDIA Linux if gl_Position is not set: 286468
    Applied Workarounds: init_gl_position_in_vertex_shader
  • Clear uniforms before first program use on all platforms: 124764, 349137
    Applied Workarounds: clear_uniforms_before_first_program_use
  • Mesa drivers in Linux handle varyings without static use incorrectly: 333885
    Applied Workarounds: count_all_in_varyings_packing
  • Linux NVIDIA drivers don’t have the correct defaults for vertex attributes: 351528
    Applied Workarounds: init_vertex_attributes
  • Disable partial swaps on linux drivers: 339493
    Applied Workarounds: disable_post_sub_buffers_for_onscreen_surfaces

Version Information|Data exported|11/29/2014, 9:17:30 PM|
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|Chrome version|Chrome/38.0.2125.104|
|Operating system|Linux 3.16.6-2-desktop|
|Software rendering list version|0|
|Driver bug list version|7.2|
|ANGLE commit id|unknown hash|
|2D graphics backend|Skia|
|Command Line Args|–ppapi-flash-path=/usr//usr/lib64/chromium/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-path=/usr/lib64/chromium/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-version=15.0.0.239 --password-store=kwallet --enable-threaded-compositing --flag-switches-begin --ignore-gpu-blacklist --flag-switches-end|

***Driver Information ***|Initialization time|29|
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|Sandboxed|true|
|GPU0|VENDOR = 0x10de, DEVICE= 0x1391|
|GPU1|VENDOR = 0x8086, DEVICE= 0x0416|
|Optimus|true|
|AMD switchable|false|
|Driver vendor|Mesa|
|Driver version|10.3.0|
|Driver date||
|Pixel shader version|1.30|
|Vertex shader version|1.30|
|Machine model name||
|Machine model version||
|GL_VENDOR|Intel Open Source Technology Center|
|GL_RENDERER|Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile|
|GL_VERSION|3.0 Mesa 10.3.0|
|GL_EXTENSIONS|GL_ARB_multisample GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_copy_texture GL_EXT_polygon_offset GL_EXT_subtexture GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_vertex_array GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_EXT_texture GL_EXT_texture3D GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip GL_ARB_point_parameters GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_point_parameters GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_lod GL_ARB_framebuffer_sRGB GL_ARB_multitexture GL_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB GL_IBM_multimode_draw_arrays GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_3DFX_texture_compression_FXT1 GL_ARB_texture_cube_map GL_ARB_texture_env_add GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_fog_coord GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_INGR_blend_func_separate GL_NV_blend_square GL_NV_light_max_exponent GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_NV_texture_env_combine4 GL_S3_s3tc GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp GL_ARB_texture_compression GL_EXT_framebuffer_object GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 GL_MESA_window_pos GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil GL_NV_texture_rectangle GL_ARB_depth_texture GL_ARB_occlusion_query GL_ARB_shadow GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_ARB_window_pos GL_EXT_stencil_two_side GL_EXT_texture_cube_map GL_NV_depth_clamp GL_APPLE_packed_pixels GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object GL_ARB_draw_buffers GL_ARB_fragment_program GL_ARB_fragment_shader GL_ARB_shader_objects GL_ARB_vertex_program GL_ARB_vertex_shader GL_ATI_draw_buffers GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3 GL_ATI_texture_float GL_EXT_shadow_funcs GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_MESA_pack_invert GL_NV_primitive_restart GL_ARB_depth_clamp GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow GL_ARB_half_float_pixel GL_ARB_occlusion_query2 GL_ARB_point_sprite GL_ARB_shading_language_100 GL_ARB_sync GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object GL_ATI_blend_equation_separate GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate GL_OES_read_format GL_ARB_color_buffer_float GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object GL_ARB_texture_compression_rgtc GL_ARB_texture_float GL_ARB_texture_rectangle GL_EXT_packed_float GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object GL_EXT_texture_compression_dxt1 GL_EXT_texture_compression_rgtc GL_EXT_texture_rectangle GL_EXT_texture_sRGB GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent GL_ARB_framebuffer_object GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil GL_APPLE_object_purgeable GL_ARB_vertex_array_object GL_ATI_separate_stencil GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 GL_EXT_draw_instanced GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters GL_EXT_texture_array GL_EXT_texture_integer GL_EXT_texture_sRGB_decode GL_EXT_timer_query GL_OES_EGL_image GL_ARB_copy_buffer GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float GL_ARB_draw_instanced GL_ARB_half_float_vertex GL_ARB_instanced_arrays GL_ARB_map_buffer_range GL_ARB_texture_rg GL_ARB_texture_swizzle GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra GL_EXT_texture_swizzle GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra GL_NV_conditional_render GL_AMD_conservative_depth GL_AMD_draw_buffers_blend GL_AMD_seamless_cubemap_per_texture GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility GL_ARB_blend_func_extended GL_ARB_debug_output GL_ARB_draw_buffers_blend GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex GL_ARB_explicit_attrib_location GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions GL_ARB_provoking_vertex GL_ARB_sample_shading GL_ARB_sampler_objects GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map GL_ARB_shader_texture_lod GL_ARB_texture_cube_map_array GL_ARB_texture_gather GL_ARB_texture_multisample GL_ARB_texture_query_lod GL_ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui GL_ARB_uniform_buffer_object GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev GL_EXT_provoking_vertex GL_EXT_texture_snorm GL_MESA_texture_signed_rgba GL_ARB_get_program_binary GL_ARB_robustness GL_ARB_separate_shader_objects GL_ARB_shader_bit_encoding GL_ARB_texture_compression_bptc GL_ARB_timer_query GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt3 GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt5 GL_ARB_compressed_texture_pixel_storage GL_ARB_conservative_depth GL_ARB_internalformat_query GL_ARB_map_buffer_alignment GL_ARB_shader_atomic_counters GL_ARB_shading_language_420pack GL_ARB_shading_language_packing GL_ARB_texture_storage GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample_blit_scaled GL_EXT_transform_feedback GL_AMD_shader_trinary_minmax GL_ARB_ES3_compatibility GL_ARB_clear_buffer_object GL_ARB_copy_image GL_ARB_explicit_uniform_location GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata GL_ARB_texture_query_levels GL_ARB_texture_storage_multisample GL_ARB_texture_view GL_ARB_vertex_attrib_binding GL_KHR_debug GL_ARB_buffer_storage GL_ARB_clear_texture GL_ARB_multi_bind GL_ARB_seamless_cubemap_per_texture GL_ARB_texture_mirror_clamp_to_edge GL_ARB_vertex_type_10f_11f_11f_rev GL_EXT_shader_integer_mix GL_ARB_conditional_render_inverted GL_ARB_derivative_control|
|Window system binding vendor|SGI|
|Window system binding version|1.4|
|Window system binding extensions|GLX_ARB_create_context GLX_ARB_create_context_profile GLX_ARB_create_context_robustness GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float GLX_ARB_framebuffer_sRGB GLX_ARB_multisample GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB GLX_EXT_import_context GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap GLX_EXT_visual_info GLX_EXT_visual_rating GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer GLX_OML_swap_method GLX_SGI_swap_control GLX_SGIS_multisample GLX_SGIX_fbconfig GLX_SGIX_pbuffer GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group GLX_INTEL_swap_event|
|Direct rendering|Yes|
|Reset notification strategy|0x8252|
|GPU process crash count|3|

Log Messages

  • GpuProcessHostUIShim: The GPU process crashed!
  • GpuProcessHostUIShim: The GPU process crashed!
  • GpuProcessHostUIShim: The GPU process crashed!