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Chrome prefetches DNS, not URLs.

• drzaiusapelord 15y ago
  Chrome is testing pre-fetching in beta builds and its expected to become part of the mainline product soon. I'm sure there are other issues. GETs are kind of unreliable. Better to do this stuff via POST.
• alastairpat 15y ago
  Chrome beta does prefetch URLs: download the latest version, go to a Wikipedia page, wait a few seconds then click the first link – it should appear (almost) instantly. I don't know if it prefetches links in webmail, however, and that would be about the only situation I can think of where this might happen. Edit: of course, now that I posted this, I can't seem to make it work. I promise it does happen.
• GDH 15y ago
  I've been using prefetching on chrome for a few days now on a heavily trafficked image site, it appears to the user that clicking next is instant as the next image is already rendered. Example of code is here. http://grahamholborn.com/prerender.js http://grahamholborn.com/prerender.js example in action(chrome only, open chromes task manager, once you hover over image it will run prerender. http://www.diftl.com/random http://www.diftl.com/random
• sbierwagen 15y ago
  GDH: your reply to this comment is not visible: you've been hellbanned. It appears to have been for a comment you made 312 days ago. Your demo link seems broken, it prefetches a new page every time you mouseover, not just once. Also, there's autoplaying audio ads, something that I can only regard as a bug.