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Chrome Hardware Acceleration?


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#1 still1

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Posted 06 June 2010 - 05:49

Hi,

IE 9 and FF 3.7 release will support hardware acceleration and i think HA is a step to faster browsing experience. Any idea when its coming to Chrome?
I googled and found no sigh of it. what is stopping Google from adding this support in chrome 6 build?? If it can be enabled in chrome tell me how to do it?


#2 Udedenkz

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Posted 06 June 2010 - 06:00

Time to switch browsers, not wait for Chrome to catch up. :)

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Posted 06 June 2010 - 06:09

View PostUdedenkz, on 06 June 2010 - 06:00, said:

Time to switch browsers, not wait for Chrome to catch up. :)
you!!! I am never going to take anything if its your post!!! I think many agree with me on this here
never expect other to hate something just because you dont like it...

#4 The_Decryptor

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Posted 06 June 2010 - 06:10

The multi-process architecture makes it harder to implement (although not impossible), and they're probably working on more important things.

#5 Billus

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Posted 06 June 2010 - 06:12

Looking forward for the final release of Firefox 3.7. It is gonna be awesome...hopefully. Also looking forward to IE9.

#6 OP still1

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Posted 06 June 2010 - 06:16

View PostThe_Decryptor, on 06 June 2010 - 06:10, said:

The multi-process architecture makes it harder to implement (although not impossible), and they're probably working on more important things.
but IE 9 is multiprocessor architecture as well but they implemented it with ease..
looking forward to IE9

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Posted 06 June 2010 - 06:17

View PostThe_Decryptor, on 06 June 2010 - 06:10, said:

The multi-process architecture makes it harder to implement (although not impossible), and they're probably working on more important things.

Look at NaCl, it already allows GPU access from within the sandbox. Its just a matter of adapting that to Chrome. But first I think they will wait for ANGLE (a DirectX backend to WebGL) to mature.

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Posted 06 June 2010 - 06:32

View Poststill1, on 06 June 2010 - 06:16, said:

but IE 9 is multiprocessor architecture as well but they implemented it with ease..
looking forward to IE9
How do you know they implemented it with ease? Microsoft aren't exactly open about their development work (and the IE 9 preview is a single process)

View Postsoumyasch, on 06 June 2010 - 06:17, said:

Look at NaCl, it already allows GPU access from within the sandbox. Its just a matter of adapting that to Chrome. But first I think they will wait for ANGLE (a DirectX backend to WebGL) to mature.
Well if they're using Direct2D (What I assume this thread is about since that's what IE9 and Firefox 4 are using), then ANGLE won't come into it.

There's nothing stopping it from happening, they just have to actually do it.

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Posted 06 June 2010 - 06:34

View Poststill1, on 06 June 2010 - 06:09, said:

you!!! I am never going to take anything if its your post!!! I think many agree with me on this here
never expect other to hate something just because you dont like it...
I don't think that was properly written so I don't fully understand what you are trying to tell me there.


Many people switch to the faster browser.
In as such, those that switched to Chrome/Opera (as other browsers are playing catch-up in terms of speed) might switch to IE9/FF if with D2D they beat Chrome.

In as much, if with D2D you FF and IE would become faster, it should be logical to switch browsers. (I would avoid them atm as they are in early stages of development)

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Posted 06 June 2010 - 06:54

Direct2D and DirectWrite I believe might be getting implemented in Chrome 6 via dev channel, or more possibly on Chrome 7. There was an article about it a few weeks ago.

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Posted 06 June 2010 - 06:58

View Poststill1, on 06 June 2010 - 06:09, said:

you!!! I am never going to take anything if its your post!!! I think many agree with me on this here
never expect other to hate something just because you dont like it...


Why wouldn't you expect others to hate something just because you do?

Just look at how many people fell in love with Firefox, just because everyone else said it was cool, and now all those people are jumping ship, just because........

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Posted 06 June 2010 - 07:01

View PostTony., on 06 June 2010 - 06:54, said:

Direct2D and DirectWrite I believe might be getting implemented in Chrome 6 via dev channel, or more possibly on Chrome 7. There was an article about it a few weeks ago.
DirectWrite is a much bigger deal for me than Direct2D, so it'll be awesome if Chrome gets it (And at the same time I'd like to see Safari get it as a replacement for it's GDI rendering code)

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Posted 06 June 2010 - 07:29

View Postcork1958, on 06 June 2010 - 06:58, said:

Why wouldn't you expect others to hate something just because you do?

Just look at how many people fell in love with Firefox, just because everyone else said it was cool, and now all those people are jumping ship, just because........
you didnt quite understand what i was talking about. if you see all his old posts he would bitch about browser and the user just because he dont like/hate them.

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Posted 08 June 2010 - 21:41

it just landed on chromium ;)

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Posted 09 June 2010 - 15:31

i wonder if opencl could do anything to help the push of hardware acceleration for browsers