When Chrome disables GPU acceleration due to thinking it is running on a system with old drivers, it disables 3D CSS transforms (or butchers elements using those styles).

Modernizr's attempt at detecting this feature via '-webkit-perspective' in document.body.style returns true, which is a false positive.

Related Links:

• Chrome announcing that they disable hardware acceleration: https://blog.chromium.org/2011/03/gpu-acceleration-old-drivers.html
• The Chromium issue I filed, requesting a proper method of feature detection for 3D CSS transforms:
  https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=77043

A member of the chromium team responded to my initial request with,

"The CSS 3D Transforms draft specification (https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-3d-transforms) does not specify that this should be the behavior of -webkit-perspective under these circumstances. It's also not clear that document.body.style's -webkit-perspective is the best way to return information about whether 3D CSS Transforms are enabled.

Changed this to feature request."