Closed Bug 642498 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

Add caching of hostnames used by sites, for DNS pre-resolution

Categories

(Core :: Networking, defect)

x86_64
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 580104

People

(Reporter: justin.lebar+bug, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: perf, Whiteboard: [parity-chrome] [parity-ie])

IE9 does this, and I believe Chrome has been doing so for some time.

See "Speculative Pre-resolution for Visited Sites" at

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/03/17/internet-explorer-9-network-performance-improvements.aspx

The basic idea is: Along with a history entry, store a list of the hostnames it looked up last time you loaded it.  Now when you go to load it again, fire off DNS requests for all those hostnames immediately.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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