Chrome 17 With Web Page Prerendering Now for Download
Google has released the stable release of Chrome 17, which marks the arrival of prerendering support in the browser.
Prerendering kicks in as soon as a user begins typing in the URL bar of the browser and Chrome auto-completes a site's address and determines high likelihood that the site is the intended destination. Details about prerendered pages can be monitored in Chrome via the local URL chrome://net-internals/#prerender.
Google also extended the safe browsing features of Chrome and compares executable EXE and MSI files against a whitelist and information about websites that are likely to host malware.
The developer version of Chrome recently went to version 19, concluding the tree of Chrome 18, which will include more than 11,000 changes over Chrome 17. According to Chrome developer Peter Beverloo, Chrome 18 brings six new stable extension APIs, a CSS selector profiler, and mutation observers.
Chrome 17 can be downloaded here.
check back in a week
check back in a week
I stopped using Google Chrome after following incident:
I was browsing the web, something related to artificial intelligence, and I was typing the actual address of the web site in the address bar. Without looking I pressed ENTER. What happened is that Chrome, instead of taking me to the web site, decided that I was looking for something else and took me to the web site which turned out to be brought down by my government due to pedofile content! It was not even close to what I typed into address bar!
It means that my government now probably has my IP and a record of me trying to access illegal web site.
This "prerendering" thing, if I understood it correctly, means that Google Chrome is fetching web pages from many web sites that Google Chrome "thinks" you want to access.
Good luck with that!
Just install the Neat Bookmarks extension.
"Back to the future" with Chrome 17 because they know what you will want in the future; at least the VERY near future :-)
Common guys, Google does not.know any ones future. Just our usual websites. The auto complete feature of most browsers already know this.