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