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Firefox 4 Adding GPU-Accelerated Graphics Rendering

Firefox 4 Adding GPU-Accelerated Graphics Rendering

by Riyad Kalla on 22. Aug, 2010 in Technology

Firefox 4 will be delivering GPU-accelerated rendering for graphical elements via the Direct2D APIs on Windows, among many other new features like a new tab layout, new look and feel for Windows and new privacy features.
Currently at Beta 4, Firefox 4 has had GPU-acceleration in the code-base, but it has always been disabled by default [...]

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Apple Loves HTML5 – As Long as You Use Safari – FAIL

by Riyad Kalla on 04. Jun, 2010 in Humor & Fun, Technology

Grant Gochnauer sent in a great little tech tid-bit this morning; Apple has launched an HTML5 demo site to show off the flexibility and power of HTML5 in light of their total rejection of Flash as the medium to deliver next-gen rich web content.
Unfortunately, as soon as you try and do anything on the site, [...]

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Funny Opera Browser Speed Test

by Riyad Kalla on 28. May, 2010 in Humor & Fun, Technology

I suppose Google put together a Rube-Goldberg “speed test” of the Chrome browser and Opera decided to 1-up them with what I found a hugely entertaining and funny “Opera Browser vs a Potato” speed test video.
A lot of what I found to be gold about this video was that it’s more like an SNL skit [...]

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YouTube Mass-Video Upload Still Buggy

by Riyad Kalla on 01. Dec, 2009 in Technology

The screenshot above shows a “failed” video upload from Chrome to YouTube that was actually successful blocking 3 other pending uploads. I’ve actually never used the mass/multi-video upload capability of YouTube in the last 2 years and had it work for me seamlessly.
Before the new Flash-based uploader, the older semi-Web-2.0 mass-upload form had incredible resize [...]

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Chromium, Safari, and Opera SunSpider Javascript Benchmark results on Leopard

CrossOver Chromium, first impressions

by Ray Gomez on 22. Sep, 2008 in Programming

Like all internet enthusiasts, I was ecstatic to see Google release a new browser. Unfortunately, like all *nix enthusiasts, my heart dropped at the sight of “Google Chrome (BETA) for Windows” and no sign of a corresponding Linux or Mac version. Fortunately, the good guys over at Codeweavers released a version of Chromium [...]

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Google's Chrome Browser Process Model Explained

by Riyad Kalla on 05. Sep, 2008 in Programming

Marc Chung has posted an in-depth analysis of Google’sChrome Browser process model. Why this is interesting is because the new process model in Chrome is one of the most powerful aspects of the browser, allowing it to render JavaScript-heavy web applications much faster without blocking the entire browser process hung in a render loop (something [...]

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