Enable Hardware Acceleration In Chrome / Chromium Browser [Quick Tip] Web Upd8 : Ubuntu / Linux blog
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Quick tip : If you use Chrome or Chromium browsers and hardware acceleration is disabled for your graphics card, you can try to force it to get better video playback performance (for instance on YouTube) as well as support for features such as the 3D Earth view in the new Google Maps.