The Insomniac Coder

And it still isn't fast enough. I made a little experiment by checking the IE 9 platform preview, the Firefox 4 beta 5 and the Google Chrome 7.0.503 dev with a Microsoft benchmark that was designed to show off IE9's new (back then) hardware acceleration features: Psychedelic Browsing . My results were, well, not what I expected: I mean, I knew that IE 9 would score fine, but I can't believe that Chrome did so badly. And yes, the GPU process for Chrome is clearly running. Can we even bitch about the benchmark not being fair? Update : I have tried this on the Chromium nightly build 58924 and it scored 10, and also saw some claims online that not all of the GPU acceleration for Chromium is up and running yet. Update #2 : I have also tried this on the Minefield nightly build, beta 6, and it scored 680, with IE 9 scoring 829 and Chrome dev a really shitty 10. I would love to know why the IE 9 score varies so wildly.  Related articles by Zemanta Firefox 4 Beta 5 Now A...

Hours since it was leaked that Google is working on providing free VoIP calls from within Gmail, Gtalk and Google Voice, I got a pop up in my Gmail asking me to install a plugin , and then it showed me this:  That's the good news. The bad news is that it froze both Chrome and IE. I didn't even bother trying it in Firefox . I did manage to make two of our phones ring, but that's about it. I have a very fast dual core laptop on Windows 7 -64, and everything ground to a halt every time I tried to place a phone call. I bet somebody screwed up and let too many people start using the service at the same time. As a norm Google services are released in a staggered fashion, but this just came up and I am sure I can't be the only one having trouble with this.  That said, it is interesting the timing of this release when the people that make the Magic Jack promised a free VoIP service two weeks ago and is already late by close to a week. I guess we'll see about that ......