31-03-2005 23:30									#1
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Cool.

http://www.google.com/help/features.html#prefetch

quote: On some searches, Google automatically instructs your browser to start downloading the top search result before you click on it. If you click on top result, the destination page will load faster than before. Google uses a special prefetching feature in Firefox and Mozilla web browsers to provide this functionality, so results prefetching is not available in Internet Explorer or other web browsers. You can disable prefetching in your web browser preferences, as described in the Mozilla Prefetching FAQ. In Firefox, you can disable prefetching by doing the following: 1. Type "about :config" the address bar. 2. Scroll down to the setting "network.prefetch-next" and set the value to "False". With prefetching enabled, you may end up with cookies and web pages in your web browser's cache from web

	31-03-2005 23:40									#2
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	01-04-2005 04:10									#3
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google is the new microsoft, with all this restriction to other browsers other than the one they choose.

	01-04-2005 04:25									#4
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Right, plus this was really needed for the end user because google.com is so damn slow searcher

	01-04-2005 04:50									#5
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Get Firefox then.

	01-04-2005 05:02									#6
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quote: Originally posted by Alex google is the new microsoft, with all this restriction to other browsers other than the one they choose.

I think it is more of a case where Microsoft's IE doesn't offer this feature so how can Google offer it to IE users?

	01-04-2005 05:32									#7
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Awesomeness of Google + shilling for Firefox = a plug for you on my blog

	01-04-2005 05:35									#8
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quote: Originally posted by Pekka Right, plus this was really needed for the end user because google.com is so damn slow searcher

It makes the first hit in the google search load faster. It won't change the speed at which you acquire search results.

	01-04-2005 05:41									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Alex google is the new microsoft, with all this restriction to other browsers other than the one they choose.

Eh? There is no restriction, it's just that other browsers don't have the feature...they can implement it if they want...

	01-04-2005 07:54									#10
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damn, i should have read your first post before saying anything.

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quote: Originally posted by Jaguar Google Firefox Google and Firefox together Ted-Striker-level analysis

	01-04-2005 12:53									#12
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	01-04-2005 19:57									#13
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quote: With prefetching enabled, you may end up with cookies and web pages in your web browser's cache from web sites that you did not click on since prefetching happens automatically when you view Google search results pages. You can delete these files by clearing your browser's cache and cookies.

Downloading stuff I didn't ask to download

	01-04-2005 20:10									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Jaguar Google Firefox Google and Firefox together Ted-Striker-level analysis

Google taking over the world

	01-04-2005 20:22									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Immortal Wombat Downloading stuff I didn't ask to download

This is a very good point. I see a potential breach of security here. Hackers could use Google to point the first result on a certain search to a malicious site that would then be downloaded by Firefox without the user's consent...

	01-04-2005 20:44									#16
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There are many cases where internet usage (both hosting and consuer connections) is charged by the number of bytes transferred. Prefetch is a good way to inflate bytes transferred and thus, ISP profits.

	01-04-2005 22:04									#17
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That's also why you can disable the feature.

	01-04-2005 22:05									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Alex google is the new microsoft, with all this restriction to other browsers other than the one they choose.

Except google and firefox cost me nothing.

	01-04-2005 23:21									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Asher That's also why you can disable the feature.

Should be the other way around: disabled by default.

quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara Except google and firefox cost me nothing.

Neither do IE and MSN search.

	01-04-2005 23:26									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Immortal Wombat Should be the other way around: disabled by default.

So should loading images from sites other than the one you're on (linked images), by this logic.

	01-04-2005 23:33									#21
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Well that would solve everyone's leeching problems. It would prevent people dropping NSFW images into forum threads. Images can still be linked to without inlining them, hopefully with a handy description of what is going to be loaded.

The main difference is that images are usually going to be appropriate to the place that they're found. Until Google is bomb-proof, that isn't guaranteed that that will be the case for search results.