Google Chrome 13 Now Available to Preload Your Pages
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Back in June, Google revealed a new search technology in Chrome that would automatically preload webpages before you even click on them. For those on slower internet connections, this could shave off seconds of wait time with every click.
This week Google released Chrome 13, which brings this new preloading technology to the masses. Those who are already using Google Chrome will automatically update upon their next browser restart – but if you haven't installed Chrome yet and you want to check out Google's browser that thinks ahead for you, grab the download right here.
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The only issue that I've had is that chrome 13 doesn't seem to show the loading bar in YouTube. Anyone else having that problem?
Essentially all this does is background load while you browse on your current page.
Yes, that's why in the settings they give you the option to turn it off
although i currently have it enabled (just updated today) and so far i see no difference.... maybe it requires a little bit of time to see the results......
When you load a page or search results, it would in the background begin loading data from the first few links.
And that's what I worry about this doing... wasting lots of bandwidth for pages that aren't viewed. Not a good strategy for the Internet.
1. it's so far only working when your doing searches. when i've typed in my web sites, clicked on favorites, or clicking on a link in the site i've selected, i've notice no difference in speed. Only in searches i've notice a difference (and looking at task manager networking to see my connection active for a short time.
2. it seams to only speed up the first link in the searches. one of the test i did was type in "runescape" and the main page of that opened instantly, while the "runescape wikia" link (just a few links below the runescape" did not open up instantly.
Although when i did the same test except changed the searched to "runescape wikia", the same thing happened above. instantly open but none of the lower links on the search page were instantly loaded.
So there my observation. only the 1st link on a search page will load. Maybe the results will change as time goes by. maybe not.
Good news is, (atm) it wont load every page in the search.
That's actually a really good point.
I also wonder how its going to affect site statistics. Will those preloaded pages show up as hits to the website? I don't see how they wouldn't unless google is just caching the data.