For anyone else who was wondering what pre-rendering actually is, here is the design document: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/design-doc

For anyone else who was wondering what pre-rendering actually is, here is the design document: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/design-documents/prerender https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/desig... Prerendering is an experimental feature being added to Chrome to potentially improve user-visible page load times. Prerendering is triggered by <link rel=prefetch> elements in referring pages. An invisible RenderView is created for the prerendered page, which will do full loading of all dependent resources, as well as execution of Javascript. If the user navigates to the page, the invisible RenderView will become visible.