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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of prefetch.

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Examples

  • I'd always imagined, when developing Web apps, that anything fetched with GET could be cached for a while and might even be prefetched.

    Snell-Pym » 2007 » January 2007

  • I'd always imagined, when developing Web apps, that anything fetched with GET could be cached for a while and might even be prefetched.

    Snell-Pym » HTTP caching 2007

  • Update: Kwai Chang Caine sez, the prefetched site gets to set all it's cookies without you knowing (unless your browser is configured to tell you about cookies).

    Boing Boing: March 27, 2005 - April 2, 2005 Archives 2005

  • That's because IE's files are prefetched by Windows at startup.

    Firefox Preloader 2006

  • That's because IE's files are prefetched by Windows at startup.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • Also Google Web Accelerator collects copies of web pages, including prefetched pages that you did not even visit, in the Google Web Accelerator cache on your computer.

    Google web accelerator - the future of search? 2005

  • When you access one of the prefetched items, it can be served up quickly out of the cache.

    Daveman's Blog David Fulton 2005

  • When you access one of the prefetched items, it can be served up quickly out of the cache.

    Archive 2005-09-01 David Fulton 2005

  • It seems reasonable, then, to have Opera prefetched so it opens faster.

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010

  • "prefetched data misses" shows requests triggered by prefetch that were not already in the ARC, and read from disk; and the "prefetched data hits" shows prefetch requests that were already satisfied by the ARC.

    Sun Bloggers 2009

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