Re: prefetch from chrome partial omnibox results

On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Patrick McManus <[email protected]>wrote:

> fwiw that particular feature wasn't killed outright  by the privacy
> pushback .. it was just unanticipated friction; I just moved to other lower
> friction ideas that have better/quicker payback. I'll come back to it, or
> steve will pick it up, or whatever when it rises to the top of the
> value-for-the-effort pile again... there are mozilla resoruces (sid) that
> can help work through the right nuances - I'm not worried and its good that
> we pay attention.
>
>
Makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.


> my point with this post was that the new chrome feature goes significantly
> past what we had even considered in the past.
>
>
AFAIK, gmail has been doing this for quite some time: when viewing the
inbox, some messages are retrieved in the background via XHR so that when
you view them, they're already loaded. I guess it makes sense Google would
push this out to the rest of the web.

Eric