See this article below about how to turn hardware acceleration on in the Google Chrome web browser.
http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/03/03/speed-up-google-chrome-by-enabling-hardware-acceleration-and-pre/or:
To begin, visit
about:flags.
Scroll down and enable
GPU Accelerated Compositing. Just below that, also enable
GPU Accelerated Canvas 2D. Chrome 11 doesn't have the 'GPU Accelerated Compositing' option, because it's now turned on by default (hooray!). Mac users, you can only enable GPU Accelerated Compositing; GPU Accelerated Canvas 2D is not yet available.
Scroll down a little, and enable
Web Page Prerendering.
Finally, hit the Restart button at the bottom of the page.