Chrome 7 Shows Off Hardware Acceleration
The hardware acceleration features in Chrome are only available in the Windows version.
Google's Chrome web browser will soon gain hardware-accelerated graphics—the latest trend for web browsers that has already shown up in early builds of Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4.
Chrome 7, which is currently available in developer build form, is the latest browser to take advantage of hardware acceleration. Chrome's tightly sandboxed rendering model—which prevents web pages from interacting directly with the OS—means that hardware acceleration is a little more difficult for Google than it is for IE or Firefox.
Of course it may be some time before any of these features make it to the stable release of Chrome. Chrome 5 is currently the shipping version and Chrome 6—which features a considerably revamped interface—is currently in the beta channel. Thus far Google has not confirmed any release dates for Chrome 6, nor when Chrome 7 will move to beta status.
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