On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 06:50:16PM +0200, Federico Giannici wrote: > On 5/9/22 18:40, Caspar Schutijser wrote: > > On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 01:16:15PM +0200, Federico Giannici wrote: > > > I'm not able to use WhatsApp Web in Chromium under OpenBSD 7.1 (amd64), no > > > login page appears. > > > Is there something bad in my configuration or is this a known problem? > > > Thanks. > > > > That's because by default WebAssembly is not enabled in Chromium (I > > found out this was the culprit using the Developer Console, there was > > some error message). > > > > Starting Chromium with ENABLE_WASM=1 in your environment will > > make it work. > > > > Caspar > > > > OK, it worked! > > Now the question is: why WebAssembly is disabled by default under OpenBSD? > Is there any contraindication to activate it? > > Thanks.
WASM is unusable unless you have user limits set to near infinity, and having it enabled by default actively broke websites that would have otherwise worked without it. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=154376428820247&w=2 IMO it was disabled for good reason. An environment variable exists to override it for the few sites that need it. I kind of wish this had also happened in Firefox, but that may soon go in another direction.. -Bryan.
