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Seems like this would completely destroy any chance of using web server visit history for legal prosecution, since even visiting a site that links to another site could cause you to appear in the second site's logs. Perhaps this is a good thing.
First and foremost, I think they are solving a problem nobody has, potentially for "my Chrome is faster than your Firefox" points. I do not mind waiting an extra 300ms for having a modicum of control over what my browser does. I don't know about others, but page loading is not usually something I even notice anymore.
Secondly, fully rendering sites I never visit, including script execution, seems like a seriously bad idea. This turns a mildly annoying while slightly beneficial feature (loading resources in the background) into a monster, especially when combined with abominations like ro.me on autoplay.
Thirdly, I could imagine scenarios in which my Google searches would be leaking this way to sites that have no business seeing my traffic.
I realize that what they are currently talking about is opt-in, but can only hope that in time this feature won't be picked up by the other browsers and become the silent default for everyone.
Seems like this would completely destroy any chance of using web server visit history for legal prosecution, since even visiting a site that links to another site could cause you to appear in the second site's logs. Perhaps this is a good thing.
My thoughts as well, but who uses for web server visit history for legal prosecution these days? What is that proof of or evidence used for?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Caylee_Anthony
It doesn't seem too out of left field that investigators would use your browser history as well.
Wouldn't this be a crazy bandwidth hog? If I typed in multiple search terms, and didn't load any of my results, it would have automatically downloaded everything for no reason.
Same thing happened with DNS when Google enabled DNS pre-fetching in Chrome.
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I don't like the idea of the browser visiting pages before I've told it to.
It's not rendering it (I would image at least), I don't see this as a security concern, do you?
Wouldn't this be a crazy bandwidth hog? If I typed in multiple search terms, and didn't load any of my results, it would have automatically downloaded everything for no reason.
Remember, this makes it vitally important that your "delete" links in web apps aren't actually links, but forms. Load up a data grid and boom! All you resources are gone.