Opera Browser Gets Hardware Acceleration
Chrome accelerates, and now so does Opera.
While 11.10 will not see the feature, Opera will implement it into 11.50. A pre-release has been posted on the company's servers.
Opera stressed that this is an experimental build and that it isn't even in alpha status yet. However, the software provides a first look at browser hardware acceleration - which is decidedly different than what Microsoft and Mozilla do, for example. Instead of limited the acceleration capability to Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7 (IE9) and delivering only half the feature set on XP (Firefox 4), Opera says it will support all popular operating systems, including Windows XP, Max OS X and Linux.
According to a blog post, Opera 11.50 integrates WebGL to support hardware accelerated 3D rendering in JavaScript. There is an OpenGL backend that requires Open GL2.x-compatible hardware to enable WebGL/hardware acceleration. Users who are unsure whether there hardware supports the hardware acceleration feature can simply monitor the support by entering opera:about in the URL bar.
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The day better come earlier. I am afraid i will not be using windowx xp when Opera 11.5 come out.
Last time I checked, both IE9 and FF4 have full hardware acceleration. In fact I tested FF4 and IE9 and IE9 does pretty well with it.
Opera is always ahead but doesn't seem to get the uneducated majority of people to download it....it needs TV commercials!
will this work for mobiles to my nokia n8 has gpu accellerated cpu
When not gaming, my GPUs are folding, and priority selection does not affect GPU usage as long as there's enough CPU to feed them data, so, it would mean pausing folding or getting crappy performance. I think I will pass, as in maybe get FF4 when out but still use my regular FF or GPU acceleration turned off except for special case scenarios.