The Next Version Chrome Will Pre-Load Your Links

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Pre-rendering has been in use for many years by web accelerators and Google will now be incorporating the pre-loading capabilities into the next version of Chrome. Google’s browser is all about speed and if Google can get this to work successfully, will give an even bigger speed boost to Chrome.
 
Looks neat, but they delayed clicking on the link for a good bit. I guess if you are searching for something you won't immediately click on the first link that comes up, but rather look at the results and see what looks good.
 
Sounds like Fasterfox that preloads links in the background.

I've heard a lot of website owners don't like that very much either.
 
I don't know...but this sounds kind of...not so safe... What if the first site has something unwanted on. You can noscript/adblock whatever and still be at risk of things. Also if the first few sites have risque material on and then you get blamed for sites you haven't even seen :eek:
 
[H] quoting Tom's Hardware? I never thought I'd live to see that. ;)
 
Great, now we can create all sorts of unnecessary load on servers and reach our bandwidth caps even faster by downloading all sorts of pages i may or may not end up visiting.
 
I usually wheel-click all the results then I start viewing them so it's already 0.0 with me :p
 
I don't get it, most sites load so fast thess days on a good connection that I hardly notice the load times.
 
Looks neat, but they delayed clicking on the link for a good bit. I guess if you are searching for something you won't immediately click on the first link that comes up, but rather look at the results and see what looks good.

What if you know what you are searching for but don't remember the web address? First result is it so you click it right away. I see what you're saying though.

I usually wheel-click all the results then I start viewing them so it's already 0.0 with me :p

Same here.
 
I don't know...but this sounds kind of...not so safe... What if the first site has something unwanted on. You can noscript/adblock whatever and still be at risk of things. Also if the first few sites have risque material on and then you get blamed for sites you haven't even seen :eek:

My thoughts exactly, what if there's something illegal on a link. It's stuck in your cache and technically you looked at it/got/whatever.

In this age where internet speeds are climbing do we really need preloading? Do we need to have the norm cater to the dialups of the world?
 
I usually wheel-click all the results then I start viewing them so it's already 0.0 with me :p

I do that too. And I prefer it that way especially since the first few results are usually huge sites packed with ad banners and i skip them anyway.
 
Anybody that's on a bandwidth-capped or limited connection isn't going to be happy with this - Google better make sure there's a kill-switch for the functionality in it. Some pages you might load could even up having dozens if not hundreds of potential pulls from sites all over the place.

I understand the concept of prefetching but, making it the default (and possibly not allowing for it to be disabled - Chrome's download statusbar, anyone?) could prove to be a backlash...

I'll still be using Firefox anyway so, not an issue for me. :)
 
In my mind I'm seeing this..

you: press "p" on the keyboard
Chrome: you want porn, huh? huh? do you? yeah porn! yeah! *loads a porn site* woohoo! porn! yeah!!
 
Was thinking the title said it would "preload your kinks". Sounded like a pretty cool feature!
 
Awesome! Instant trojans!

That's my first thought.

I once clicked the link right below the torrent link on Piratebay one time and immediately had trouble with the computer. Ended up having a rootkit and a rogue AV program.. not sure which came or if both came, but it took 2-3 days to get it straightened out.

Does this mean just simply visiting Piratebay would give me the same trouble, even if I'm super careful to click on what I need to click on?
 
Did anyone notice their examples only used the first google result? Every single time they clicked the first result...

What happens if its 3-4 or 5 links down or more?

I don't mind preloading as long as sites that are prefetched are verified as legit somehow
 
Did anyone notice their examples only used the first google result? Every single time they clicked the first result...

What happens if its 3-4 or 5 links down or more?

I don't mind preloading as long as sites that are prefetched are verified as legit somehow


Edit whoops.. no edit..

Forgot to note... most of you are sitting there going raaaagh viruses, well if it only preloads one or two... odds are you're going to click both of those links anyway.. so what are you losing?
 
I never liked this feature. Yeah, I know it's not supposed to load dynamic pages, but is that really foolproof? Are you sure I won't end up prefetching a link that says "click here if you agree," or "click here to download xxx," or "lots of popups if you click this ad?"

Plus I honestly feel bad about using all that bandwidth to download pages that will never be viewed.
 
If the site is that obvious, I'll probably type the URL. I use google for a lot of things that aren't that easy although I guess that isn't the case for everyone.
 
So everytime I load a forum thread, it preclicks "report this post", or worse, in badly coded CMS admin panels, preloads "delete"?
 
Forgot to note... most of you are sitting there going raaaagh viruses, well if it only preloads one or two... odds are you're going to click both of those links anyway.. so what are you losing?
Yeah... no.

Not if the first link is something like webhfnu.xhfrlp.in
Stuff like that happens more and more with link farms and sites that are full of ads and nothing else. They have random url names, and the google description sounds exactly what you are looking for, you'd never know better if you didn't pay attention to the url. And yes, these have been showing up not only on the first page of results but as the first result of some google searches. Those are the kinda sites that have that fake antivirus crap in the ads.

I wish google would work a little harder at their pagerank stuff so that crap would go to the bottom of the list. It cant be that hard to figure out if a site is all ads and no actual content.
 
So everytime I load a forum thread, it preclicks "report this post", or worse, in badly coded CMS admin panels, preloads "delete"?

No, links have to be flagged as pre-loadable. Moreover, any sanely designed site will have those as POST links - which browsers and spiders will never automatically follow.
 
No thanks, dont see much positive from this, only a lot of negative. Love Chrome, but if this feature is not disabled by default, I think I will have to switch if not only for principle.
 
This is a fantastic idea in fact to get in the spirit of things i'm going to leave the hot water taps running just in case i need to use them, it'll save me a few seconds waiting for the water to heat up!
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