The Khronos Group is an American not-for-profit member-funded industry consortium based in Beaverton, Oregon, focused on the creation of open standard, royalty-free APIs to enable the authoring and accelerated playback of dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices.
Genuine security concerns, oh boy look at the brainwashed clueless Hera. There is no security concerns, everything has been addressed by Khronos, Mozilla and Nvidia. That's why they implemented ARB_robustness in Firefox. A clueless person like Hera wouldn't know that because you only care about your proprietary crap like H.264, you don't care or follow Firefox's development.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656824
http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/robustness.txt
Also you have no one but yourself to blame for buying ATI/AMD. They don't support their older X1000 series GPUs, anyone can see buying AMD is a bad idea.
http://techreport.com/news/16524/radeon ... ort-status
I'm not surprised they dropped HD2xxx/3xxx/4xxx driver support either, the precedent has been set and anyone already knows about their way of ditching support as quickly as possible.