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There goes my 3G bandwidth without even asking... Not a good feature if you ask me.

• nextparadigms 15y ago
  I haven't checked Chrome 17 yet, but they've had this feature for a while in chrome://flags/ and you can probably still turn it off. On Chrome for Android they use this feature, too, but it's on default for "Wi-Fi only". I guess they could make a similar setting for laptops that use 3G connections, too.
  • caw 15y ago
    I have 17-beta, but here's the flag: "Prerender from omnibox Enables prerendering of suggestions from the Omnibox and predicts appropriate network actions (prerendering, Instant, DNS preconnect) by calculating a confidence value for each Omnibox result." Your options are Automatic, Enabled, Disabled. Default was Automatic.
• m_for_monkey 15y ago
  And not only your and other Chrome users bandwidth. It generates unnecessary traffic and slows down the whole network.
• lloeki 15y ago
  Not only that but mobile networks often limit the number of open tcp/udp connections to an unbelievably low number. You could easily DoS yourself out of the network's tcp stack. Also, preloading and rendering something like ten pages in parallel when I really want only one implies wasted wattage. There goes your battery too.