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On Tuesday 02 September 2008 23:02, Simon Waters wrote: > Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 05:00:12PM +0100, Ross Bearman wrote: > >> http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html > > > > Can't be any worse than Firefox 1.5+ > > Why do you mention 1.5? It is three years old. > > Doing DNS lookups in anticipation of requests - could have interesting > impact on DNS usage, although I guess the overall impact will probably > be negligible given the average number of DNS requests per page (which > also means it won't make things much faster either). Still it is a > simple optimisation, and I can see it being copied. I can look forward to reading about lots of cases of people unwittingly downloading kiddie porn too! FF does prefetch of things - not sure how its configured but if it were to do dns stuff too you'd be in jail faster than an old man at a party conference. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html