Google Chrome 8 Adds GPU Acceleration, Cloud Print and More

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By Keith Dsouza on October 13th, 2010

Google Chrome has hit another milestone with their development version. Google Chrome 8 now adds more features to the about:labs section including GPU Acceleration.

Google Chrome 8

Chrome 8 has added an option to leverage your graphics hardware for better graphic performance for the browser. You will have to visit about:labs in the browser to enable the new feature.

In addition to that, Chrome 8 also supports "cloud printing" also known as print from anywhere using the cloud. However, this feature is not yet fully functional. Chrome 8 development version has been updated for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

If you want to try out the development version of Google Chrome, read our earlier guide on switching to Chrome development version.

Tags: Google Chrome, Google Chrome 8, Internet Browsers

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