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    News - Google releases Chrome 23, brings video GPU acceleration

    GPU acceleration means your battery will last longer. Also brings Do not Track.
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    Re: News - Google releases Chrome 23, brings video GPU acceleration

    It's a great update for chrome. Faster now than it ever was and saves battery life. Google really giving their users what they want now.
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    Re: News - Google releases Chrome 23, brings video GPU acceleration

    ah-ha! That'll be why Chrome spazzed out earlier and wouldn't load anything. Would be nice if it told you it had updated itself. This silent update mechanism never seems to go 100% smoothly for me. Just a shame it takes 5 times longer to close Chome and all processes to finish on this netbook than it does to open Chrome a fresh.

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    Re: News - Google releases Chrome 23, brings video GPU acceleration

    Quote Originally Posted by Funkstar View Post
    ah-ha! That'll be why Chrome spazzed out earlier and wouldn't load anything. Would be nice if it told you it had updated itself. This silent update mechanism never seems to go 100% smoothly for me. Just a shame it takes 5 times longer to close Chome and all processes to finish on this netbook than it does to open Chrome a fresh.
    Oh. Interesting, I had what sounds like the same problem (using Chrome), but it affected all web browsers. Had me a little puzzled (other net connections were fine) and went away on restart.

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    Re: News - Google releases Chrome 23, brings video GPU acceleration

    that sounds more like a system issue, I can't imagine a Chrome update would prevent other browsers from working too.

    My wife was complaining about not being able to load pages, turns out she hadn't actually restarted anything (the laptop or Chrome) in months. Closed Chrome, applied all the pending updates, restarted and I've not heard her complain for a while (about that anyway).

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    Re: News - Google releases Chrome 23, brings video GPU acceleration

    Quote Originally Posted by Funkstar View Post
    that sounds more like a system issue, I can't imagine a Chrome update would prevent other browsers from working too.
    Yes, it has recurred a couple of times and I've been forced to restart frequently

    Not sure what's going on..

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    Re: News - Google releases Chrome 23, brings video GPU acceleration

    So essentially they added H264 support for HTML5? IIRC it had this a while back, but they dropped it in favour of WebM, which is a royalty-free alternative. That's all well and good, but no current PC hardware has WebM decoding hardware, so it was done in software, so it was generally better to just stick with Flash which does use H264 hardware. Trying to encourage open standards is good, but forcing it far too early on just means people will stick with existing solutions. As an aside, IE9 also supports H264 HTML5.

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