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Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration
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."
Have been in there a long time, hidden by the --enable-vertical-tabs switch, so this isn't a new idea. Try it out yourself if you want (about:labs page isn't in yet so you'll need the switch).
It's true flash is a lot more stable these days, particularly with the release of flash 10.1
Just the odd browser issue here and there:
Like it causes IE to crash very frequently on some computers
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2925919?tstart=0
and Firefox to crash very frequently on some computers
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2962506#2962506
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2920257#2920257
and then of course there was the Safari crashing problems
http://fairerplatform.com/2010/08/flash-10-1-crashes-safari-how-to-remove/
and it crashes some computers with hardware acceleration enabled (the default setting)
and it causes all browsers to crash on some computers when you try to activate a webcam
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3031253#3031253
and of course it crashes chrome a lot too on some computers (also remember the Adobe flash uninstaller doesn't work on chrome now, so need to uninstall in two ways)
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=461f66d507a8d884&hl=en
But I'm sure your right, I haven't for instance seen anyone complain of flash crashing safari on the iPhone. oh wait....
AFAIK adblock has been able to stop even loading data from blocked domains for a while.
That was half a decade ago, nowadays most marriages don't last that long...
(but more seriously - Opera is for a long time the only major browser without a corporate grandaddy (remember AOL?), probably the only way it could work back then)
One that hath name thou can not otter
AdBlock isn't enough; it still loads the data, but doesn't display it.
Used to be true for the Chrome version due to a deficient extensions API. No longer true now. Well mostly since according to the developer a few elements might still slip through the net. The Firefox version on the other hand has always kept the blocked sites' data from being downloaded.
Use the space bar (and shift+spacebar, to go backwards, at least in Chrome).