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This exists in Firefox as of 14, currently in Aurora, so this will be in a stable release in a few weeks.

It also exists in recent Chrome versions, however it seems to be disabled by default for some reason, but you can enable it in the flags menu.

No reason why this cool site can't use it on those browsers, there are lots of demos on the web that do. Mouse lock is very important.

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> This exists in Firefox as of 14, currently in Aurora, so this will be in a stable release in a few weeks.

Firefox 14 is scheduled for release on Tuesday.[1]

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar#Future_branch...

Even better ;) Thanks for the correction!

No problem. I looked it up last week because I thought this was the release that was going to have the new fix for add-on-related memory leaks[1], but it turns out that's not coming until Firefox 15 next month.

[1] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-15-to-Fix-All-Common-...

> It also exists in recent Chrome versions, however it seems to be disabled by default for some reason

It's enabled at least for the Chrome Store/NaCl apps, since it did that to me for Bastion and/or From Dust.

The reason would be security-related, as usual. I take it you deal with the clickjacking potential, and the potential for deliberate annoyances?

Fullscreen also has security issues, more in fact, I believe? And it is not behind a flag. Also, mouse lock is enabled in Chrome in NaCl apps, but not HTML5 ones. So I am not clear on what's going on there.

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