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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:Let me see if I've got this right... by yodleboy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    wish i had mod points for you. the only times i see flash crash a browser is when my mother in law tries to open farmville AND cafe world AND mafia wars AND a few more large flash games in tabs in one browser window. even then it's less of a crash than a slowing to a crawl. Personally, I've always had way more issues with the Adobe Acrobat browser plugin than with Flash. THAT thing is horrible, thank god for Foxit.

  2. Re:Tabs on the left make sense by insufflate10mg · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why post as AC? I would've given mod points...

    Dear Google,
    Go with this idea. Please.

    Love,
    snort10mg

  3. Re:Tabs on the left make sense by gilesjuk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Who needs tabs at all. Press a button and display a list? show the pages in visual form?

    At least Google are thinking outside a box a little.