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Thursday, March 31, 2005  

Google Results Prefetching

Q | 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. | Q

Mozilla's FAQ on link prefetching. [ disable option available]

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