With the fuss that Microsoft has been making you'd have to be blind and death not to have noticed the release of Internet Explorer 9. The browser has hit the market with impressive stats and claims to be the first browser to deliver full hardware acceleration of all HTML5 content.
At the start of September, what is proving to be Microsoft's biggest rival, Google released their IE competing Chrome 6. But whilst it took IE a year to evolve from 8 to 9, Chrome 7 is already being prepared to go head to head against Microsoft's impressive new web browser.
Chrome 6 may be new to us, but in the Google office, its old news. They're already making bold claims about what 7 will be able to do. "It will be 60 times faster than (the fast) Chrome 6 and 2D graphics performance and canvas acceleration is now available in trunk and canary builds of Chrome 7, though the browser is still in the very early beta stage so things will likely change before it’s fully released.
And Google isn’t the only browser looking at hardware acceleration. The latest beta builds of Mozilla’s Firefox also include hardware accelerated components for improved performance.
It’s not yet clear when Chrome 7 will be available “With Google Chrome's fast release cycles, we expect to be able to get these enhancements to users quickly and add new performance improvements over time.” Says James Robinson, Software Engineer at Google.
Source:neowin.net
3 thoughts on “Google ready to take on IE 9 with Chrome 7 (60 times faster than 6)”
*blind and deaf
I bet Google will surpass IE in terms of version numbers by the start of 2012! IE took about 10-20 years to reach IE9. It would take just 3-4 years for Chrome to reach version 9!
At least thats the first site of the internet that specifies that chrome 7 will be sixty times faster than its predecessor (chrome6). All the sites republish that chrome 7 will be sixty times faster but they dont specify what its going to be sixty times faster to. To a bird , to an aeroplane, while thats being intentional as to imply that chrome 7 will be sixty times faster than its competitors. Chrome is already faster than its competitors, the truth is that the new version will just be sixty times faster than its predecessor in hardware acceleration which for the time being is almost non existent or at least 60 times slower….