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Re:Chrome 9 Sandboxes Flash and Adds WebGL Support by riobard on Thursday December 16, 2010 @05:01PM (#2013949)
Just tried the Aquarium demo and the system (OS X) became unresponsive…… and just checked CPU/memory usage: CPU utilization < 10% with 1.2G free memory. So it must be the GPU since WebGL is hardware-accelerated???
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Re:Chrome 9 Sandboxes Flash and Adds WebGL Support by joakin on Thursday December 16, 2010 @07:54PM (#2014609)
Ubuntu with ATI 4* perfect here (Fans on in some seconds BTW)

Did you enable the about:flags options? As it says in the page its beta features, so it wouldnt be strange to behave badly in some ocasions/systems

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Re:Chrome 9 Sandboxes Flash and Adds WebGL Support by nextparadigms on Thursday December 16, 2010 @07:47PM (#2014593)
WebGL is different from hardware acceleration. But yeah, I don't see why they would enable WebGL first before hardware acceleration, since otherwise it will be just slow.
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