Should mention being recommended mechanism to drop underlying graphics resources

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MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WEBGL_lose_context/loseContext

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

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What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

The document talks about it being a debugging tool to simulate losing the context, however it can also be used for freeing graphics resources.

The specification mentions for loseContext():

Implementations should destroy the underlying graphics context and all graphics resources when this method is called. This is the recommended mechanism for applications to programmatically halt their use of the WebGL API.

This should probably be incorporated into the page.

What did you expect to see?

Mentioning that this is the recommended mechanism to programmatically drop graphics resources and stop using WebGL API.

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

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Do you have anything more you want to share?

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Page report details

• Folder: en-us/web/api/webgl_lose_context/losecontext
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WEBGL_lose_context/loseContext
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/api/webgl_lose_context/losecontext/index.md
• Last commit: f71683f
• Document last modified: 2025-09-19T15:38:24.000Z