How Would Chrome’s Page Preloading Technology Affect Web Browsing?



Many people dont yet know that Google is working on a new technology which would increase your web browsing speeds by many folds. The technology will load the pages in your Chrome browser really fast. But how? The browser would have cached it earlier, for later use.

Google ChromeThe technology is still being given birth in Google Labs. It will be implemented in the public release of the browser in Feb next year, hopefully. The technology basically loads a few pages in different tabs in your Chrome browser. These pages are links on your current pages. For example. consider there are a few links on this page, you can consider this: Google. Now, Chrome will track this link on this page, and cache, or load, that webpage in a new tab. And this new tab is hidden to you.

So by no way will you be knowing about this preloading of pages. But when you click on that link, the browser will just activate that particular tab and make it visible to you, and making a tab visible just needs microseconds. So there you go, you will think that the webpage was loaded in microseconds, making the internet experience a lot faster.

How would this change affect you? I just said it, microseconds. But there will actually be the same traffic from your side, only hidden from you. Nevertheless, its good to see this happen. But if you think it over, how would the browser know which links to cache and which ones to not? Well, dont give much work to your brain, Google is already scratching its scalp for this.

 

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