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Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration

Posted by timothy on from the browser-as-taskmaster dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google is already experimenting with GPU acceleration in its latest Chrome developer builds. Chrome 7 can separate different layers of a webpage into CPU and GPU processes and combine those layers using the GPU as long as the browser is now launched with certain switches. Chromium 7 has also a new Labs feature that reveals that Google is thinking about moving tabs from the top of the browser to the left side. It seems that Chrome will be catching up with Firefox 4 and IE9 in terms of hardware acceleration soon."

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  1. Re:Tabs on the left make sense by dave420 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't you have a scroll wheel? Are you a time-traveller from the past?

  2. Re:Tabs on the left make sense by Sancho · · Score: 4, Funny

    I did this on my netbook, but it made it really hard to type.