Six QA harnesses launched Chrome with `--use-angle=metal` unconditionally
(or defaulted to it). Metal is a macOS-only ANGLE backend: on Windows and
Linux it makes WebGL initialization fail outright, so CesiumWidget never
constructs, the app never boots, and the harness dies at its
`waitForFunction` boot wait — before running a single assertion:
Error constructing CesiumWidget.
RuntimeError: The browser supports WebGL, but initialization failed.
TimeoutError: Waiting failed: 60000ms exceeded
Affected: qa-map-source-tray, qa-cockpit-utility, qa-view-target-prewarm,
qa-firstrun (unconditional), qa-cockpit-plates (GPU branch taken off-Mac
too) and qa-floor-hold (`--angle` defaulted to metal everywhere).
Fixed by adopting the platform check qa-flyroute-cinema.mjs already uses:
real GPU via Metal on darwin, the portable swiftshader rasterizer
elsewhere — which is what the other ~20 QA scripts already pass. No
behavior change on macOS.
Verified on Windows 11: `npm run qa:map-source-tray` went from 0
assertions (boot timeout) to all 20 checks running.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01C3eGYgDYBo2BCUeDGwGvrp
