New Chromium Builds Have Hardware Acceleration Integrated
Posted on 07. Sep, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in News, Tips
Wolfgang Gruener of ConcievablyTech is reporting that the newest builds of Chromium now have hardware acceleration switched on by default. I don’t know why Gruener consistently refers to Chromium as simply “Chrome 7″ in his article because that’s not true and is somewhat misleading. Chrome 7 has plugin and auto-update features lacking in the open source Chromium builds which makes it slightly different from regular Chrome builds.
Nevertheless, Gruener has put the new hardware acceleration to the test using the V8, SunSpider and Microsoft’s Psychedelic wheel benchmarks, and observed a marked improvement in performance from the previous generation of the browser, Chrome 6.
Here’s hoping that the more stable builds of Chrome 7 in terms of the Dev and Canary builds have this blazing speed trickle down so we can put it through some paces against other browsers bringing hardware acceleration to the browser market as well. It’s hard to really gauge performance from Chromium builds since they’re not necessarily easy to compare with other browser due to the differences between them and Chrome releases.
You can get the latest Chromium release from here.
4 Responses to “New Chromium Builds Have Hardware Acceleration Integrated”
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Wolfgang
07. Sep, 2010
You are right, Chromium would be correct and it slipped through in this particular article. However, isn’t it silly calling this software Chromium when we know that it really is Chrome anyway? There are by the way many more differences between the developer builds and the stable versions – the auto update is something many could care less about. The biggest deal is, by the way, HTML5 support and differences in
Wolfgang
07. Sep, 2010
support for multimedia file types.
Daniel Cawrey
08. Sep, 2010
I agree with you that the number of variations is starting to get over the top. Canary, Dev, Beta and Stable. And that’s not even counting Chromium. There is a method behind the madness, however, in that the Chromium team is working to develop a commercial operating system as quickly as they can. I just wonder how regular readers are able to understand the information written between Chrome and Chromium builds since the latter is released daily, don’t auto-update and lack plugins like Flash, Gears and the Foxit PDF API. Thanks for opening a dialog here about this.
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