Open Bug 1783225 Opened 2 years ago Updated 1 year ago

links with rel=prefetch are not prefetched

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Networking, defect, P3)

Firefox 103
defect

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UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: gotrunks, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Whiteboard: [necko-triaged])

Steps to reproduce:

Go to a page with link tags with rel="prefetch", for example https://pccd.dites.cat/

Actual results:

URLs in such links (e.g. <link rel='prefetch' href='/?mode=&cerca=&pagina=2&mostra=10' as='document'>) are not prefetched.

As a result of this issue, navigation within this site is faster in Chrome and Edge than it is in Firefox and Safari.

Expected results:

URL https://pccd.dites.cat/?mode=&amp;cerca=&amp;pagina=2&amp;mostra=10 should have been prefetched.

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::DOM: Core & HTML' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → DOM: Core & HTML
Product: Firefox → Core

Isn't this a dup of bug 1589084?

(In reply to Olli Pettay [:smaug][bugs@pettay.fi] from comment #2)

Isn't this a dup of bug 1589084?

I don't think so. This is about links not being prefetched at all (not related to DNS prefetching) and I tested it happening in both HTTP and HTTPS.

Blocks: rel=prefetch
Component: DOM: Core & HTML → DOM: Networking
Severity: -- → S4
Priority: -- → P3
Whiteboard: [necko-triaged]

https://pccd.dites.cat website now uses quicklink, which may confuse people trying to debug the issue.

Example page with prefetch links without quicklink: https://pccd.dites.cat/404.html

See also related bug in https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/quicklink/issues/262

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