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What’s next for Google now that it has begun delivering search results “faster than the speed of type.” The obsession with speed continues even as the spotlight moves from web search to Chrome. While the browser world has always been obsessed with speed, improvements are often imperceptible.
But Google wants to offer something more substantial, something “wicked fast.” A new Chromium issues page very tersely defines an exciting new feature expected to arrive in early 2011 as part of a trunk build. The entire idea revolves around delivering “wicked fast page loads” by automatically preloading pages in background tabs.
However, as exciting as the feature sounds, it will come accompanied by a number of challenges. For instance, it could deceive analytics tools into exaggerating page views. It would be interesting to see how exactly Google circumvents these challenges.
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JackNSally
November 10, 2010 at 6:27pm
It's been done in firefox already. Fasterfox extension. Does this and more.
praetor_alpha
November 10, 2010 at 5:53am
It's finally happened: Chrome is so fast, it renders pages in the past.
Damnlogin
November 09, 2010 at 10:52pm
Smart idea but hmm..... wouldn't that eat up Ram and cache space? Might suck for old PCs :/
