Posts Tagged ‘Chrome 7’

Chrome 7 is slowly taking shape. Following news that GPU acceleration can already be activated in Chrome 7, the latest build now shows a careful integration of the upcoming Chrome Web Store.

With the release of the first versions of Chrome 7, we noticed a subtle speed increase in graphics-heavy websites and suggested that Google is improving Chrome’s overall graphics performance. Our readers later found that GPU acceleration can already be manually activated in Chrome. Google has now officially confirmed that “there’s been a lot of work going on to overhaul Chromium’s graphics system” and that the browser will “begin to take advantage of the GPU to speed up its entire drawing model.”

Mozilla today launched a “new” Firefox 4 Beta, which is internally called Firefox 4 Beta 4. The new version features the Sync feature, Tab Candy, which is now called Panorama is faster once again and seems to be using a new version of the Gecko layout engine.

Google quietly released the first trunk builds of Chrome 7 under the Chromium label last week. There is no information what exactly justified the version upgrade other than a subtle improvement in graphics performance. Speculation about upcoming hardware acceleration around the web was the result, and we got more curious when a ConceivablyTech reader told us that hidden switches would unlock a much faster Chrome – the claim was a 30x speed improvement. Fact or fiction? [Charts]

Google released the first developer version of Chrome 7 under the Chromium label today. Early Chrome releases typically do not reveal the upgrades for the browser, but Google there are promising hints that Chrome 7 will be focusing on graphics performance: First tests show that Chrome 7 is notably faster in Microsoft’s complex HTML 5 tests than Chrome 6 Beta.