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These are my notes on how to install WebCL and WebGL in Firefox 6.0 on Ubuntu Linux 10.04.

1. Install Firefox 6 from http://firefox.com/
2. Go to http://webcl.nokiaresearch.com/ and install the WebCL plugin
3. Install libosmesa6 via synaptic or run sudo apt-get install libosmesa6
4. Start firefox and go to the url “about:config”.
5. Set webgl.force-enabled=true
webgl.osmesalib=/usr/lib/libOSMesa.so.6
webgl.prefer-native-gl=true
6. Restart firefox
7. Go to http://webcl.nokiaresearch.com/ again and run steps 3-5 to see if everything works.

If it doesn’t work, starting firefox from a terminal may help you. Runtime error messages from Firefox are displayed there.

Good luck!