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Opera 12 has been in the works for almost a year now. It's been going slow, but that's to be expected with such a major update. But it's almost over, the beta is coming very soon Opera announced.There's plenty to be excited about Opera 12, but the big new feature is hardware acceleration.Opera wan... |
21 April 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Opera continues development for their browser on all fronts. Over the weekend they released a new snapshot for the beta version and launched a snapshot for Next build. The latest alpha snapshot focuses on fixes for hardware acceleration, which included memory leaks and drawing artifacts present on systems equipped w... |
29 November 2011
02:11 GMT |
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Applications running on devices based on the new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system should be both faster and better looking than before, Google says.
This is due to the fact that Google packed the new Android release with hardware accelerated graphics, something that was announced ever since Android 3... |
2 November 2011
15:41 GMT |
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Following the launch of the alpha release a week ago, which introduced hardware acceleration, a new build, 1116, of Opera Next has been rolled out. The current release focuses on improvements and fixes and does not bring anything new to the table. It dealt with a huge memory leak on Windows and features updates for ... |
20 October 2011
07:29 GMT |
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Opera may be a bit late to the game, but it's got big plans for Opera 12, the upcoming release. This is the version that will finally get hardware acceleration as well as WebGL support. What's more, it seems that Opera worked hard to get it right and is accelerating quite a bit of features, including the en... |
13 October 2011
08:05 GMT |
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This alpha release for Opera (build 1105) has been announced at Up North Web conference earlier this week as a technological milestone in the development of the browser, because it introduces hardware acceleration. It's true that hardware acceleration is in alpha stage and only uses OpenGL backend, but the progr... |
13 October 2011
05:26 GMT |
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Opera is gearing up for a great release with Opera 12, which is still in pre-alpha mode. Apart from the small but noticeable updates to the UI, the big changes are under the hood. Opera 12 will be the first hardware accelerated Opera, the first to support WebGL out of the box and the first to come with the eagerly a... |
11 October 2011
08:41 GMT |
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Online games, meaning games that live on the web rather than games with an online component, are becoming increasingly popular. Zynga has hundreds of millions of players for its games, mostly on Facebook, for example.Most of these games are simple and aimed at casual gamers. As such, graphics don't matter as muc... |
4 October 2011
11:56 GMT |
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A major area of improvement for the next version of Windows Phone is related to the evolution of browsing. With the introduction of Windows Phone Mango, the first upgrade to Windows Phone 7, Microsoft will essentially push mobile browsing to the next level. Ever since announcing Internet Explorer 9 Mobile for Windo... |
25 May 2011
03:56 GMT |
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Firefox 4 is the fastest Firefox yet and a huge improvement over the version it's replacing. It can also take on its competitor, Chrome, IE, Opera, Safari and put up a decent fight when it comes to performance.That doesn't mean it can't do better, there are already several projects underway which shoul... |
29 April 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Users worldwide have been able to download Firefox 4.0 Final since March 21st, 2011 as Softpedia readers know very well, but Mozilla only officially launched the browser today (1.9 million downloads already at the time of this article). Unlike Internet Explorer 9, released to web on March 15, Firefox 4.0 also comes ... |
22 March 2011
14:44 GMT |
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Interestingly enough, days after Google complained about the state of old graphics card drivers and how its affecting the hardware acceleration features in Chrome, Mozilla is now doing the same, highlighting the fact that many drivers are blacklisted due to instability."Firefox 4 brings many new features in the Graph... |
7 March 2011
09:52 GMT |
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Google has been working hard on bringing more hardware acceleration support to Chrome. As more stages of the rendering process and more elements are offset to the GPU for processing, Chrome should speed up and the CPU will be free to handle other tasks, all of this while the system consumes less power. It's a wi... |
2 March 2011
05:03 GMT |
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With a six-week release cycle, it doesn't look like Google Chrome ever gets any huge new features. Small, frequent updates are nice, but they don't make a huge impression. However, this doesn't mean that the Chrome team is not working on bigger, long term features. One particularly interesting one is a... |
24 February 2011
10:51 GMT |
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One of the hottest topics in browser-related news these days is the fact that Google will only support the open-source WebM video format and VP8 video codec, dropping H.264 altogether, but it seems that Rockchip, whose processors power most Chinese tablets and MIDs, is ready for this move.And that's because thei... |
18 January 2011
06:29 GMT |
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With the introduction of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft has undoubtedly captured the attention of both application and web developers with the focus on hardware acceleration, albeit for different reasons. While web developers will now be able to build richer Cloud apps tailored to the GPU acceleration enhancements i... |
13 January 2011
04:53 GMT |
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Adobe recently debuted the Flash Player 10.2 Beta 2. Among the new features to expect in the next major update to the popular plugin is broader support for hardware acceleration, especially for video content. All of this was known, but Adobe's John Nack is touting the performance boost this provides claiming tha... |
16 December 2010
05:37 GMT |
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The graphics advances that Internet Explorer 9 brings to the table by harnessing the power of the GPU will be leveraged by the next versions of both Silverlight and Flash. Silverlight 5 and Flash 10.2 are designed to play nice with IE9 hardware acceleration, enabling a new level of graphics performance for content b... |
6 December 2010
02:47 GMT |
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While a lot of work has been poured into boosting the performance of Internet Explorer 9 to the point where its predecessors are left in the dust, there are scenarios in which IE9 can in fact be a tad slower than IE8 or IE7. Microsoft confirmed this issue, and noted that IE9 is not to blame, but that at fault is an ... |
16 November 2010
09:47 GMT |
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Google has updated the Chrome dev channel with the release of Google Chrome 8.0.552.23. The team is inching closer towards the first Chrome 8 beta launch which should be very close now. The update focuses on bug fixing and stability issues, as is usually the case, but also comes with a few regressions, the GPU acce... |
30 October 2010
08:06 GMT |
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Adobe Flash may be taking a lot of heat and it's not exactly everyone's favorite application. Warranted or not, Flash content on the web is ubiquitous and that's not about to change any time soon. One thing that is changing though is support for 64-bit software. 64-bit versions of the three major platf... |
16 September 2010
06:32 GMT |
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Google Chrome is already one of the fastest browsers around. But it can be significantly faster yet, with a little help from the GPU. Hardware acceleration of 2D graphics is now available in the latest Chromium builds and the Canary release, though not enabled by default. With hardware-accelerated graphics, page rend... |
15 September 2010
05:36 GMT |
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There are just a few days left until Microsoft will launch Internet Explorer 9 Beta, with the Beauty of the Web event on September 15th getting closer and closer, and the company notes that it is welcoming the competition from rival browsers in terms of hardware acceleration, but that IE9 is best in breed in this re... |
13 September 2010
10:53 GMT |
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Mac users looking to get H.264 hardware acceleration out of Flash Player are no longer required to download the Adobe Labs Flash Player Gala Beta edition, the San Jose, California-based software vendor has revealed in an update.According to the release notes for Flash Player 10.1.82.76, Adobe has included the h... |
11 August 2010
03:33 GMT |
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With the release of Platform Preview 4 Build 1.9.7.9.16.6000 of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), Microsoft compared fully-accelerated HTML5 web experiences in the next iteration of its browser to what open source rivals Firefox and Chrome are capable of delivering. The company granted me access to the video embedded below ... |
6 August 2010
08:00 GMT |
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Some of the most recent releases of Firefox and Chrome are no match for Internet Explorer 9 when it comes down to the performance delivered because of hardware acceleration capabilities. Back in June 2010, Microsoft threw Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 2 in the hardware acceleration arena against a set of rival... |
7 July 2010
10:50 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 9 is accelerating toward the turbo-charged future of the web, an evolved Internet, with new content, fresh experiences, and Cloud-based applications that will feel as if they would be running not as services, but locally on the PC instead. With its next version of Internet Explorer, Microsoft i... |
3 July 2010
06:49 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 9 is in a different league compared with its rivals when it’s “playing the hardware acceleration.” One of the key aspects of Internet Explorer’s evolution from IE8 is the introduction of hardware accelerated HTML5. The promise from Microsoft is that developers will be able to... |
4 June 2010
11:51 GMT |
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Hardware acceleration for online content is just around the corner, as Adobe has barely released Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate, which brings hardware-assisted video decoding and gaming. On supported platforms, this should translate into better performance and less CPU utilization, which is always a nice thing t... |
7 April 2010
04:09 GMT |
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The marriage between Internet Explorer 9, Windows 7’s DirectX 11 and NVIDIA ION is essentially a match made in GPU heaven. Even at the level of Windows Internet Explorer Platform Preview, IE9 has no match in rival browsers when it comes down to hardware acceleration of HTML5 and SVG. Just check out the video em... |
1 April 2010
11:50 GMT |
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The race between Mozilla and Microsoft is on yet again to establish positions such as innovation leader and follower, when it comes down to Firefox and Internet Explorer. And it will most probably fall on the two company’s next generation browser releases to help label the two software makers as either leading... |
24 November 2009
09:23 GMT |
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