Open Bug 373334 Opened 17 years ago Updated 1 year ago

Use link prefetching to prefetch target pages when current page performs a META Refresh

Categories

(Core :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
General
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: ian, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: 

When a page utilises a META Refresh, we could automatically prefetch the target page to speed up the loading of the redirect.

This could probably be disabled for small values of refresh delay, for example a META Refresh with a delay of less than five/ten seconds will not be automatically prefetched.

Reproducible: Always
Severity: normal → S3

I implemented this feature as an extension. It possibly helps you to imagine the behavior of future Firefox including a fix of this bug.

https://criptogrid.in (Ver.0.3.2007050202 or later)

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