Just enabled it on mine using the -enable-accelerated-compositing flag. Holy **** this thing flies now. I thought it would be a gimmick, but I've found myself randomly flicking through websites just to see how much quicker they load. Anyone else tried it? Thoughts?
I enjoy it in Firefox 4 Beta 4, yes hardware accelerated is some serious stuff. Pages that used to struggle with Firefox, now is a peace of cake.
Links please gents if you're going to ask has anyone tried it! Or what version of Chrome should we look out for? I'm on Chrome 5.0.375
Chrome Beta: http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/chrome/beta/ Firefox 4 Beta 4: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/ (also feature's Firefox Sync to sync bookmarks and more between systems, and encrypted (encryption code not saved on server)).
This makes me excited. My only gripe with chrome is sometimes it just gives me the standard 'could not find webpage' bollocks randomly on pages that are definately up. If I hit F5 a couple of times it tends to go 'oh there it is'. But even with that, I find it faster than FF
Can't see any difference with Chrome, it was fast anyway. Maybe you only see a difference with a faster internet connection. Yea beta's are great....
Well, I stuck with the same version of Chrome I was already using (5.0.375.127) and added the flag to shortcut. Made the switch from IE8 a while back, which gave me a noticeable speed bump. Can't imagine going back to a non-GPU accelerated IE8 now. I've got a 20Mbps line, and I always thought it was just the sheer amount of pretty things dumped onto a website that made it load slowly. Apparently not! I'd try the Firefox Beta, but FF became such a memory hog I actually switched back to IE8 from it. Not sure I want to go back there. Chrome has worked without issue so far, so the only browser switch I can see myself making in the future is IE9 if it's any good.
I told my mom about chrome.. she's in alaska- she called me back and said everyone she knows uses chrome now =] still a ff user cause I like chicken- I'd switch but it's not going to get any faster than what I've got already.. watch the addons (like microsofts live and office plugins) and you should be shagging about xD I guess that's how you guys would say it
I'm a fan of Firefox personally, but I don't like the word beta when it comes to running software on my machine, so I'll wait until FF4 is released properly Anyone know if they're doing a 64-bit version?
Not officially. They are not doing it due to a lack of 64-bit plug-in support. And companies making the plug-in's, such as Adobe, are not doing the 64-bit version because they see that no one uses a 64-bit web browser, let alone only IE exists in 64-bit. So it's this never ending loop, that was turning since XP 64-bit edition was out. So don't get your hopes up. The only plug-in that might actually get any advantage of going 64-bit is Flash as it's a CPU intensive program.
Firefox 4 improved engine is already much faster in drawing. But for more performance you can enable Direct2D (it's not enabled by default, because it's still early code and buggy sometimes) To do this: Go in to about:config and set mozilla.widget.render-mode value to 6, and gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled to true. Hopefully, everything will be nicety polished when Firefox 4 leaves beta. Already beta after beta, there are big improvements and bug fixes to each of them. So it seams to be going well.
That font rendering makes my text look funky It sort of reminds me of ubuntu for some reason. I prefer firefox to chrome, but chrome is just too fast to overlook.
Yes it does. But this just settings that needs to be configured in their Direct2D engine. The reason for this, is that for one, it doesn't use Windows own text rendering engine anymore, and they have to now calibrate their engine to match each Windows version. My guess, is that the team responsible for this, probably were under Ubuntu, so they match the settings there (which, if true, or simply not some default setting thing, I find shameful, as I find that font rendering under Linux is not very good at the moment, and it's not a reason to match it. Anyway, I leave Direct2D off, because it makes my GPU whine based on the page (same under Chrome).
Downloaded it, installed it, and tested it. Absolutely no difference between the latest Chrome and FF 3.6.8. None... nada.. zip. [edit] Uninstalled it. Woeful range of skins as well.
Yeah but whats the flag for Chrome ? scratch that found this http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/how-to-turn-gpu-acceleration-on-in-chrome-7/2410
