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I would expect the browser-makers to allow more than 2-4 connections per host - that would speed things up. This links-prefetching thing feels a bit dodgy for b

• lanaer 16y ago
  That, and I thought link rel="next" already existed… and had a more semantic meaning than pre-fetching. It (and its brother, rel="prev") are meant to inform the browser (which then hopefully informs the user, but that never took off) of what the next or previous page is (in contexts where that makes sense). Maybe it's the next page of an article (evil!), or the next blog post in line. Whatever. Anyway, this has been around for a while, even mentioned in this post from 2008: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/06/21/minimalism http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/06/21/minimalism So it's more accurate to say that Firefox likes to prefetch pages, and will use <link rel="next"> tags to guide it. If you're going to be pre-fetching pages anyway, that seems a reasonable enough way to decide what to fetch, but I agree that I'd prefer pre-fetching to be off.
  • spc476 16y ago
    The Firefox extension "Link Widgets" also uses those to generate a menu bar for the site (it also uses the rel="top", rel="up", rel="first" and rel="last").
• Pistos2 16y ago
  I, for one, would appreciate a browser setting to not prefetch.