Prefetching considered harmful

Posted Jun 16, 2005 10:24 UTC (Thu) by Dom2 (guest, #458)
Parent article: What is firefox prefetching?

Prefetching also came up a few weeks ago, in the context of the google web cache. See this blog entry on why it caused problems.

Personally, I feel that those kind of problems are down to poor application design. But that doesn't mean to say that there's not a lot of poorly designed stuff out there.

Thankfully, somebody came up with a good workaround.

-Dom