Google has confirmed plans to use GPU acceleration to give the latest version of its Chrome browser a serious bump-up in speed.
The news follows similar plans expected to be announced from the Microsoft and Mozilla camps in the coming weeks, with Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) and Firefox 4 both looking set to add GPU acceleration.
Overhauling the graphics system
"There's been a lot of work going on to overhaul Chromium's graphics system" and the browser will "begin to take advantage of the GPU to speed up its entire drawing model, including many common 2D operations such as compositing and image scaling," a Google rep informed conceivablytech.com.
As such, Chrome 7 will appear to be far zippier than its predecessors, particularly on graphics-heavy sites.
Google plans to offload an increasing amount of the graphics' rendering work onto the GPU to "achieve impressive speedups", detailing how the tech works on a document on Google's Chromium website.
Mozilla's Firefox 4 beta is currently available for those that want to check it out, while Microsoft is currently readying itself for the launch of Internet Explorer 9 on 15 September.
Via: conceivablytech.com
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lovlid
September 2nd 2010
5. Boring, boring opera users.
Hey si, any rumours about who they're going to sue next?
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si_smith
August 31st 2010
4. @eeossupport Not as fast as Opera...
Opera is faster than Chrome and even faster than IE9 with hardware accelration.
Opera have also been working on hardware acceleration for quite some time, with rumors being that Opera 11 will include it.
From early 2009:
http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2009/02/04/vega?id=2953968
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eeossupport
August 30th 2010
3. I am using Chrome 5 and it is already extraordinarily fast!
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bradavon
August 30th 2010
2. I'd would've though around Xmas time. Chrome 6 final is due out soon.
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mrdjmo
August 30th 2010
1. I can't wait for this a massive fan of chrome on all operating systems.
Let's hope it gets released soon.
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