RSSGoogle Speeds Up Results for Firefox
By Nate Mook | Published March 31, 2005, 11:03 AM
Software engineer Reza Behforooz announced Wednesday on the Google Blog that the company has added "prefetching" to some searches, which instructs the Web browser to automatically start downloading the top result. The feature is only available in Mozilla and Firefox, and can be optionally disabled.
By prefetching the destination site's content, users that click the top search result will find the page loads much faster. Sites that want to block or ignore prefetch requests can do so by configuring their Web server. Google notes that with prefetching, "you may end up with cookies and web pages in your web browser's cache from web sites that you did not click on."
just another form of "download accellerator" to me, people have nbo complaints against those so why whine about allowing prefetch?
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|Is this what Mozilla developer do after hired by Google?
I think they better to make better mozilla. so more user use the mozilla first. and then make improvements in google side.
just my 2c
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|Firefox lets you delete the cookies after every use if you are paranoid about that. That is how I set my privacy settings. It is the option "Keep cookies:" and then I select "until I close Firefox", instead of "until they expire."
While this sounds like a great feature for most users, my net connection is 10Mbps+ so the prefetching would go unnoticed anyway. Keep up the good ideas google.
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|I'm not sure if this is such a good idea. Lots of "non-legit" companies cheat the system already by ensuring they have a high page rank - I wouldn't want my browser to start downloading pages automatically! Cookies etc placed on your HDD even though you don't visit the site?
No thank you!
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|you probably have a heavy paranoya or something like that :)
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|I can see this being a semi-good option for users with slow connections and low patience levels, but as far as I'm concerned, I'd just as soon wait the extra 5 seconds for a page to load that to run the chances of having unnecessary files placed on my computer. Then again... I'm very VERY picky about what is placed on my machines.
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|I you don't like it, then disable the function.
Being a dial-up user, I would probably use it. But then again, maybe I won't. I'm still waiting for the page to load either way, so I don't really know what I'd do. Maybe I'll try it out for a few days, then see how it goes.
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|The fact that you have cookies but don't visit a site lessens the actual usefulness of someone using a cookie to track you. Think about it. If you have 100 cookies from visiting one site and you never visited the site, no useful information could be attained from that. It actually helps you mask data mining.
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|Cookies are not dangerous you now. And if you really are paranoid, you can alwayas set the option to delete all cookies when you close the browser.
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|What about if an illegal site is loaded into your browser cache without your knowledge which is brought up in a court case at a later date and you are prosecuted for looking at whatever the illegal stuff is, i.e. dodgy adult material if you know what I mean.
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|Not really. They (the computer guys who would check your computer) would know if you downloaded it on purpose or not. You shouldn't need to worry about them checking you unless you've done something illegal :P
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