Chrome to pre-load pages for "wicked fast" browsing

What is that Firefox extension called? I'd like to try it out.

I could see this caching being useful... but it seems very risky and expensive if you don't get it right...

At least this would matter to most users though, unlike Javascript speeds which really doesn't affect people as much as it is hyped up to.

Chrome is just a stripped down version of Opera...

interesting... I think they could easily do this when people hover their mouse arrow over a link. But on top of this, I suppose google's keeping track of peoples browsing habits could help predict what links you may click and preload those pages.

Absurd.. Naive... Ignorant.. Troll....

I really dont know which to call you.

This sounds like a cool idea, no matter how they implement. I don't see this really helping stumble upon users though, as the sites are completely random

To me Chrome is already the browsing choice if this works out as they want it it would be great but im thinkin it maight take more ram and processin power i hope it doesnt over do it now chrome barely takes anything and its really fast regardless of internet im talking about loadin speed and such

@Emil
I think they are probably going to use their massive infrastructure at the back end to provide this caching ability; but it is a calculated guess.

@red
I totally agree, it is simply for bragging rights nothing more, because browser can only do that much, if the user doesn't have a fast connection you can't go too far with such features anyway.

sounds like a great feature but i hope there is an option to opt out of this. I have slow internet and need 100% of my bandwidth to load a simple webpage or it will never load. this pre-loading would certainly slow me down even further.

I have been using Chrome as my main browser for a while. Firefox 4 and IE9 are ok but do not have anywhere near the speed of Chrome! This feature could be really useful, not quite sure how it is going to work though as it almost has to predict which website you want to go to. Look forward to seeing it though.

Chrome is currently my primary browser of choice. I love the simplicity and speed of it. This seems to be an interesting feature. I wonder how they will limit the bandwidth and memory usage while the system waits for the user to open up that page. If they can pull it off, it will be very nice, though the page may not be quite up to date from when it cached it. Things change pretty quickly on the internet.

I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I don't really find this preloading web pages useful. It's kind of like that add-on for Firefox called... I forgot.

A lot of USEFUL things are missing in Chrome even though I do prefer it over Firefox just because it's faster. I, however, do need Firefox for more of those "Power User" elements that it has that Chrome is severely lacking.

It's kind of surprising how slow the Chrome community is in producing useful extensions. Sure it's only a year or so old, but at that frame of time Firefox already has the primary useful extensions ready and being constantly updated. It just feels like the Chrome community isn't as active (or at least as adept in scripting) as the Firefox crowd.

Chrome has never failed me compared to how pathetic Safari is. I have both of them (chrome on desktop and safari on mobile). Safari is just the most annoying browser ever made.

Sounds promising. Other browsers will continue to play catchup with Google thanks to this innovation. Hopefully, this new feature doesn't end up slowing down old computers.. computers with limited memory.

Chrome has Add-Ons of its own ya know? Don't know for sure if it has the ones you mentioned above though.

Does that mean it will be continually downloading page data in order for the page to load in a blink when clicked ?
If so it won't be of use to someone like me with a very low internet speed and bandwidth, I still use Firefox as my only browser, but I'm sure interested in new features in other browsers, and Google sure is obsessed with speed more than anything else.

i want it on opera! both preview and instant!

Chrome 8 beta seems pretty fast already. I wonder when they will upgrade Chrome 9 to beta status. Opera is fast too, although not quite up to Chrome's speed. However, Opera may pull a surprise with their coming Opera 11.

They both excel at different things as well. This is something that people never seem to mention. They just look at Peacekeeper tests and say that Chrome is faster. Which is true. But look at the details and generally, Opera is faster at specific areas compared to Opera.

Just load them on to the disk. Read speed from your HD greatly exceeds your internet connection.

I invite you to use OPERA!