Opera Users...look here?
*EDIT* thread title edited to avoid upsetting people.
As a Opera user I was curious about IE9's hardware accelleration and how it would make the web faster as it used your graphics card to accelerate screen draws etc.
I thought, why hasn't opera got this..?
Turns out it HAS, but only from a beta "work in progress" build.
Tried it, happy to say it work PERFECT for me..just a helluva helluva lot faster.
It used OpenGL to accelerate the browser..unlike IE9 though it accellerates everything whilst browsing, not just screen redraws etc.
If you run Opera..give it a whirl, just remember that dependant on your OC config, it might not work properly!
Grab it here:
http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2011/02/28/webgl-and-hardware-acceleration-2
Anyone tried IE9?
What do we think?
*EDIT* thread title edited to avoid upsetting people.

As a Opera user I was curious about IE9's hardware accelleration and how it would make the web faster as it used your graphics card to accelerate screen draws etc.
I thought, why hasn't opera got this..?
Turns out it HAS, but only from a beta "work in progress" build.
Tried it, happy to say it work PERFECT for me..just a helluva helluva lot faster.
It used OpenGL to accelerate the browser..unlike IE9 though it accellerates everything whilst browsing, not just screen redraws etc.
If you run Opera..give it a whirl, just remember that dependant on your OC config, it might not work properly!

Grab it here:
http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2011/02/28/webgl-and-hardware-acceleration-2
Anyone tried IE9?
What do we think?
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