Turn On GPU Acceleration in Chrome 7.x [Dev and Canary builds]

[noaccount]

For the moment this is just a curiosity, but Firefox 3.6 is starting to look obsolete...

It's only available in the Dev and Canary builds of Chrome, and very few pages support it—for now. But if you want to get hardware acceleration running in Google's browser, it's just a simple command line switch away.

ZDNet's Googling Google blog points out that getting GPU acceleration going in your Chrome Dev version is simply a matter of right-clicking your Chrome shortcut and adding a parameter to the end, just as we've explained in the power user's guide to Google Chrome. In this case, that parameter (or "switch") is --enable-accelerated-compositing.

Where can you try out your new graphics-card-assisted browsing and rendering? Oddly enough, at Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 Testdrive site. There will be, assuredly, other sites that support GPU acceleration in the near future, but for now, it's neat to see how fast you can get your browser going.

http://lifehacker.com/5625256/turn-on-gpu-acceleration-in-chrome-7

[Ande]

That's cool. I've got a GPU just sitting there doing nothing....

[noaccount]

If anyone runs benchmarks post results here, this is what i got w Psychedelic Browsing benchmark

Firefox 3.6.8
- 5 revolutions / min

Firefox 4b4*
- 11 rev / min

Chrome 7.x
- 18 rev / min


*to enable hardware acceleration on FF 4b4 see softwre and hardware requirements and follow instructions HERE.

[Student26]

Good share, noaccount, appreciated.

[JayCub]

Thanks for the information noaccount as this looks like a way forward, Im sure if MS are involved websites will want to take advantage of this new feature and there will be more that are eager to adopt this approach,