Opera Developer Comes With Address Bar Speculative Prerenderer Feature (opera.com)

Earlier this month, Opera announced a new interesting feature with Opera 43 developer that predicts the website you're about to go to. The company explains: There are two ways we can predict what page the user will soon load. When the current page tells us so, and when we can determine from the users actions that they are about to load something. Pages can use the tag, and for instance Google uses that for search results if they are pretty sure of what you will load next. When someone writes in the address bar they are humanly slow. Sometimes it is obvious what they will write after just 1-2 characters but they will just keep writing or arrowing through suggestions for millions or billions of wasted clock cycles. We expect this feature to results in an average of 1 second faster loads from the address bar. The company insists that this feature saves time and energy without compromising the security. What's your thought?

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Re:Like Google's autocomplete for search?

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

It would be useful sometimes, if it allowed me to populate the search field with one of their suggestions and add text to the suggestion BEFORE they do the search.

Ummm, it does. At least it does on my PC.

Start typing, use the arrow keys to move down to the suggestion you like, then type some more. You can revise the line as much as you like, backspace, add/remove words and text, etc.