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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
prefetch .
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Examples
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I'd always imagined, when developing Web apps, that anything fetched with GET could be cached for a while and might even be prefetched.
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I'd always imagined, when developing Web apps, that anything fetched with GET could be cached for a while and might even be prefetched.
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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).
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That's because IE's files are prefetched by Windows at startup.
Firefox Preloader 2006
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That's because IE's files are prefetched by Windows at startup.
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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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.
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When you access one of the prefetched items, it can be served up quickly out of the cache.
Daveman's Blog David Fulton 2005
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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
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It seems reasonable, then, to have Opera prefetched so it opens faster.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010
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"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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