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Chrome Should Get 'Extremely Fast' at Loading a Whole Lot of Web Pages (cnet.com)
Chrome is going to get a big speed boost -- at least for web pages you've recently visited. CNET: With a feature called bfcache -- backward-forward cache -- Google's web browser will store a website's state as you navigate to a new page. If you then go back to that page, Chrome will reconstitute it rapidly instead of having to reconstruct it from scratch. Then, if you retrace your steps forward again, Chrome will likewise rapidly pull that web page out of its memory cache. The speed boost doesn't help when visiting new websites. But this kind of navigation is very common: Going back accounts for 19 percent of pages viewed on Chrome for Android and 10 percent on Chrome for personal computers, Google said. With bfcache, that becomes "extremely fast."
How brave.
My Chrome only gets fast after install ghostery.
All these add-networks really delay the loading of pages.
before everyone became concerned with "expiring pages" and made it so you couldn't go back without re-posting data. Then they made it so you couldn't even view the page source without reposting data.
So, we're going back to what we had 10 years ago?
Let's pretend this convenience outweighs the security risks for the moment - now it's been a moment, let's verify that.
As always, Chrome continues to be the fattest memory hog of all browsers, and it only "wins" in synthetic benchmarks, which mean very little in real-world usage cases.
I keep wondering why people are so keen on giving up their internet secrets to Google, while their spyware slowly eats up all their RAM.
As usual, someone else is insisting on what the users REALLY want. The financial models don't really make it possible to do otherwise, eh?
Let me put it this way: If you had the option to donate $10 toward the implementation of this feature, would you? What feature do you actually want instead? Wouldn't it be nice if someone cared enough to ask?
ADSAuPR, atAJG.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
I'm a little confused here. WebKit has had a back-forward cache for as long as I can remember, and Chrome forked off of that. How is this not already part of Chrome?
Check out my sci-fi/humor trilogy at PatriotsBooks.
One of the reasons I went back to Firefox is that chromeâ(TM)s back button always seemed so slow. Hitting back in Firefox has always seemed instantaneous even back in Netscape days
https://brave.com/
They have plans for your future that involve a brave new world under an iron fist, painted blue to make you accept the pain.
Google is a tool of big government and deep state corporate taskmasters.
Why do you even post then?
Firefox does throttle CPU in background tabs. For a very long time APIs like setTimeout have been throttled aggressively.
There has been quite recent work on using OS APIs to reduce the priority of processes running background tabs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
Hey you have 16 gigs of memory, I think I'll use 15.5 of them! kthxbye!
Hey, just curious, do you not watch today's television programs too?
How does a hosts file help with caching web pages?
Also, is this an open source util? Forgive me for being suspicious of random zip files on the internet...
It also had throbbers.
Web 1.0 > Web EverythingIsJavaScriptAJAXBloatAds
There was the old Opera browser - before they ditched Presto - and the other browsers that will eventually approximate Opera's featureset years later (context: this was one of Opera's key features).
I use Chromium in "Incognito Mode" and with configuration files locked on read-only.
Wow, what a useful post! Thank you so much for your amazing insights!
It will use even more memory then. Cool beans.
They just reinvented browser cache? Like Netscape had since version 1? Are you fucking kidding me?
But this kind of navigation is very common:
Not for me. When I'm viewing a page that has multiple sub-pages of interest, I tend to open a new tab for those sub pages. For example, one tab for the /. main page and a new tab for each article I read -- similarly for actual news sites. :-) Don't really know why I would want to go back and forth within a single tab.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
That giant sucking sound is all your RAM disappearing into the maw of a single browser window.
See subject INFILTRATOR & evidon an advertiser fox watching YOUR HENHOUSE! Now, since I've been on a terminator 'kick' all day PER my subject?
Might as well do it again:
Quote John Connor from the BEST scene in TERMINATOR SALVATION: "The devil's hands've been busy - you think you're human? You & me - we've been @ war since before either of us EVEN existed - you tried killing my mother, Sara Connor. You killed my father, Kyle Reese - YOU WILL NOT KILL ME!"
APK
P.S.=> Especially this https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... ... apk
. . . is there a way to send my browsing history and personal information to Google even faster?
And to make sure it is really ALL of my info. I find it annoying when they don't know everything about me.
It's the opinion that matters, not the content. Or don't you know how forums work?
Thanks for your insight. To make it easier on us in the future can you please list in alphabetical order all the things you don't use so we don't accidentally bother you again?
Due to your brevity, I'm not sure if you were deliberately being insightful or it was some sort of joke. However, it is true that the economic model is driving the behaviors, but only indirectly in this case through the google's invasive ad business. Even from that perspective there are other options for new features that make much more sense than this.
If the user is dissatisfied with the speed, they can buy a faster Internet connection or a faster computer or both. Much more than $10 in such cases.
Error in the original Subject. Last part should have been "Me neither."
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Yes, I've been trying to do this since 1985 and my DeLorean is running out of dilithium crystals. My obnoxious son chides me with these words:
'You are old, father William,' the young man said,
'And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head -
Do you think, at your age, it is right?' . . .
...omphaloskepsis often...
It'll NEVER be OpenSORES & lookup Google EFast (malicious build of Chrome DUE to being "OpenSORES"'d & the crap CRIPPLES coders (when YOU don't DO THE WORK YOURSELF & STEAL others' code, that's what you DO to yourselves coders - & you open yourselves to DEPENDENCE on that shit that often shows SECURITY ISSUES IN IT (node js being a PRIME example thereof)).
* That will NEVER happen to me because I don't release MY code - I put MY NAME on it also (you THINK I'd write malware putting MY NAME in it? LOL! Guess again! I'd put myself in PRISON if I did).
APK
P.S.=> Now, since you do your UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous "trolling" of me? Good luck out-thinking/outsmarting me - it CAN'T BE DONE, lol... apk
See subject + my last post (cuts down on bandwidth ads & tracking script used) Hosts efficacy recently vs. threats & results in https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://linux.slashdot.org/com... https://news.slashdot.org/comm... https://apple.slashdot.org/com... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://search.slashdot.org/co... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://apple.slashdot.org/com... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://science.slashdot.org/c... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
* That's only recently while I've been on Linux (July 2018) & 100's of times vs. MANY other botnets/malwares etc. in the past circa 2006-early 2018 while I was on Windows: CONCRETE VERIFIABLE UNDENIABLE REALITY (see those links as proof). ... & that's ONLY what /. reported on (there were TONS more)
APK
P.S.=> "It's working: Neville... it's working!" - "I AM LEGEND" + HOSTNAME USE IS DOWN IN MALWARE https://unit42.paloaltonetwork... (my ACT OF FAITH is JUSTIFIED by fact)... apk
I'm on the other side of the fence. The only reason to open tabs is to have them do something. The recent changes to throttle background tabs breaks most every real-time monitor I use. Now, I have to open these pages in separate browsers, because returning to a web page that has error messages on it isnt fun.
How can we stop them from doing this? Or get them to make it user-controllable?
Personally, I wish Chrome would compress multiple back arrow operations in your browser and jump straight back to the desired page in history. It would save a lot of reload time.
-Bob-
Forums? This is slashdot, you're both faggots. Now e-fuck and whine about video games and the government in Kendall's voice. *moaning victimstance*
I...thought they did this already.
I have a better proposal. If I am on a web site with a login, and I take so long to enter an awesome post that I am auto logged out behind the scene, preserve the blather from the vaporized long text box somewhere...anywhere...so I can recover it. Back + login = clean form thanks fer nuthin'.
In short, if I had an human assistant and said, oops, see I was logged out, put that text back in thanks, then they would do it.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Only Alt-Right people would do such a thing.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Reusing data you already have can be much quicker than waiting for the speed of light (or at least the speed of internet) to reload content from remote servers.
09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.
The only reason to open tabs is to have them do something.
That or to keep an HTML document loaded on your laptop so that you can read it while you are away from Internet access.
How well does Pi-hole work when a tracker uses randomized hostnames within a particular domain? Or randomized hostnames within each publisher's domain? I know APK's solution breaks in such cases.
Firefox added this long ago, so hitting the back button went from fast (reload assets from disk and ram caches) to instant. I think this didn't last for long because it's all too easily defeated by the presence of any HTML5 and/or Javascript garbage.
Perhaps Google's new feature will be able to be disrupted by a single script or ad picture etc. that invalidates the page and force a full re-render, except google will hand optimize its own sites/applications and Google AMP.
I don't care either way, I'm lucky if I do back/forward among pages and get the same article recommendation I wanted to follow. If I'm not lucky I've lost that dynamically generated link forever. That's why some of us are tab hoarders.
There are also areas of Firefox GUI that lack a scroll bar (but you can scroll with keyboard or scrollwheel or touchpad or tiny arrows). That's not a related issue, but this sucks balls. I never ever know whether I have 50 tabs or 500 tabs unless I recover from a crash or accidentally hit a close button.
Browser caching has been a source of many headaches in our org with regard to CMS's and dynamic web applications. You can put header tags that allegedly turn off caching so users always see the latest, but they don't always work right on all content types (HTML, images, CSS, JavaScript, PDF's, etc.). All browser brands we've tested have at least one caching bug.
If browser makers haven't perfected current caching, then this new fancy-ass caching will probably have even more bugs.
Table-ized A.I.
Wildcard subdomains?
And then there were wildcard subdomains...
That's useful even on full ATX towers - when you're piggybacking on 2.4GHz wifi which is only really usable when it's not "Internet rush hour".
You can keep even dozens wall of text articles for your "internet fix" that will not consume much resources if they're full of actual content but not so much megabyte scripts and 8 megapixel pictures.
& imprecision, false positives & overheads in ram/cpu use wildcards introduce. DNS wildcards? US DHS issues DNS redirect is HUGE danger (not w/ hosts vs.) https://threatpost.com/gov-war... & ICANN ISSUES SAME WARNING https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
* Do yourselves a GIANT favor - don't ever, Ever, EVER even THINK of trying to outthink OR outsmart me...
APK
P.S.=> Results will ALWAYS be in MY FAVOR vs. you 'white mice MENIAL intellects', lol - see above! apk
They're starting to get serious to better compete with Netscape Navigator 4.7.
Now it's on!
PS : dreaming of a quad core Cortex A53 1GHz system, with 32GB RAM. Browsers are braindead wasting RAM like that and they only get more sandboxes, processes, caching, megapixels. Meanwhile I just want to look at the pictures and text that got rendered so there's not so that much CPU load, for me anyway. I also want to open another browser, or perhaps a VM on top of that which will also waste hundreds megs to gigs of RAM and be mostly idling.
This is a slightly absurd suggested CPU/RAM combination, to get the point across.
Now Chrome will take up 80% of my memory rather than 50%
Thanks for your insight. To make it easier on us in the future can you please list in alphabetical order all the things you don't use so we don't accidentally bother you again?
I would prefer the list chronological in either (a) the date which it stopped being used, or (b) the thing was first discovered (if it is not being used).
Maybe those who are anti Windows 10 due to piracy and pro Chrome may want to go a step further and apply your principles to all products. Not just the ones that think are cool.
http://saveie6.com/
Wasn't this in WebKit (and therefor Chrome) 10 years ago?
https://webkit.org/blog/427/we...
Yes, I understand what a cache is. I even know why additional working memory can improve cache performance, and the new computer I mentioned will probably have more memory for caching. If that was your question, then it is answered. Politely, even though such a question could be regarded as rude.
On the other hand, if you have nothing to say, then perhaps you should say nothing.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Opera Presto (which is to say, versions 7 through 12) had this years ago, though the early versions didn't handle dynamic pages well. It was one of their stronger features, and when they did change it most people wanted the option to put it back the way it was. It doesn't do anything for javascript/HTML benchmarks as it only deals with pages you've seen before, but it helps immensely on workflow.
,,, until you (hopefully) find what you want. With this RAM cache (as Opera called it), returning to the results page is as fast as if you'd just switched tabs, so you don't need to open the links in new tabs (and thus don't use as much memory and CPU).
Best example, you do a search and get a results page, then have to look at the pages in the results to see if they are what you're looking for. So you load one page, then go back to the results page, then load the next
Dnsmasq using an amended hosts file FTW. Point your router DNS to a linux box if necessary. Then all devices covered.
This is a feature Opera had for at least a decade before they rewrote it to just be Chrome.
No modern browser comes close to Opera circa 1998, and it's absolutely pathetic what people think are features a browser should have.
...is a quite dynamic multiplayer online game like slither.io? Saving the states of these kinds of pages will likely introduce bugs.
Hog the memory, memory hog.
Nope, still not fast enough
That's the bit that's interesting to me. How do they know that going back accounts for 19 or 10 percent of the traffic?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I think clearly Chrome is leading the way in browser progress, and its why any browser with hopes of getting some attention use Chromium engine. Not that Firefox's Quantum isn't open source as well, but nobody apparently thinks its the best web engine. If Mozilla loses more funding it wouldn't surprise me to see Firefox adopt more of the Chromium engine. As the old saying goes, if you can't beat them, join them.
I browse 12 hours a day. Improvements are good, I need more though.
I have 8 cores, 16 threads. 32GB.
Let me tick a box "insane fast mode" I don't care if it uses 24GB memory, I want preemptive tab updating in the background of tabs they know I open 70 times a day.
I also want, since I browse like a drunken master, to not open a tab I already have open. If I have one open already somewhere else just switch that tab in its place. So I'm never on duplicate tabs. (They do this now, poorly)
Still not going to use it
Due to your brevity, I'm not sure if you were deliberately being insightful or it was some sort of joke."
I'll admit that I was going for the chuckle by being so brief but it's a statement of truth.
The average client with a storefront is not going to tell their customers that their computer is outdated and internet connection too slow to purchase their products. It is the developer's duty to provide cost savings to the client by reducing server load and to improve page performance for the customer to aid retention and thereby increase sales. It is the developer's duty to use every available tool in the box to achieve these goals. Such is the nature of modern web development.
For ANY browser via APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux/BSD h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p
Yields more security/speed/reliability/anonymity vs. any 1 solution (99% of threats use hostnames vs. IP address most firewalls use) more efficiently/FASTER + NATIVELY 4 less.
Vs. "Bolt on 'MoAr' illogic-logic" slowing u hosts speed u up 2 ways: Adblocks + Hardcode fav. sites u spend most time @ vs. competition w/ security bugs (DNS/AntiVir) + overheads slowing u (messagepass 'souled-out' to advertisers easily detected & blocked addons + firewall filtering drivers) & their complexity leads to exploit!
* 1 of a kind in GUI 4 Linux!
FASTER+SAFER & Cuts 40++% bandwidth used!
APK
P.S.=> Protects vs. scripts/trackers (kernelmode faster vs. usermode slower NoScript vs. 3rd party script)/ads/DNS request tracking + redirect poisoned or downed DNS/botnets/malware download/malcript/email malicious payload
It's a PARTIAL LIST ONLY. /. omitted reports where hosts work vs. threats etc. & /. didn't report tons of others from security sites, dolt.
APK
P.S.=> LEARN TO READ! apk
Hosts also STOP DNS ISSUES I ljust listed using hardcoded favorite sites avoiding DNS' requestlog tracking/security issues totally (which also speeds up getting to them TOO by resolving FASTER THAN DNS CAN from LOCAL SYSTEM RAM where hosts is cached).
* Had to add THAT fact too!
APK
P.S.=> Regarding what I listed that DHS & ICANN are warning of (massive redirect poisoning of DNS occurring lately) listed here https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... that I just replied to adding this fact... apk
I see a pattern with Chrome.. the faster it gets in loading pages with every update slower it makes our computer. Where are they going with this ?
Firefox has this and I turned it off because of privacy/security concerns
See subject: Until you prove ALL of 'em = bad you get FALSE POSITIVES via wildcards & DNS has redirect poisoning US DHS issues DNS redirect is HUGE danger (not w/ hosts vs.) https://threatpost.com/gov-war... & ICANN ISSUES SAME WARNING https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
A PROBLEM DNS HAS THAT HOSTS HARDCODES STOP MIND YOU by avoiding DNS requestlog TRACKING & also DNS totally vs. those redirects + hosts RESOLVE FASTER PROPERLY & aren't subject to that dns redirect poisoning!
* YOU LOSE AGAIN!
(Hosts blocking SPECIFIC KNOWN BAD SITES don't GET YOU FALSE POSITIVES!)
APK
P.S.=> Keep going for DNS chump - see where it gets you (redirected to MALWARE & also RESOLVING SLOWER THAN HOSTS DO, (hosts aren't redirected to poisoned FAKE SITES, & hosts DO resolve FASTER by FAR))... apk
Redirect poisoning in DNS = rampant: hosts avoid it US DHS issues DNS redirect is huge danger https://threatpost.com/gov-war... & ICANN ISSUES SAME WARNING https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... you DUMBfuck!
* Hosts also RESOLVE FASTER & properly vs. DNS redirect poisonings & being DOWN dumbass!
WHY DO YOU THINK CHINA COPIED MY IDEA of hosts hardcoded favorites?
& Who did it 1st: China or me? I did!
Dates = my proof https://theregister.co.uk/2017... w/ the FACT China rampantly STEALS U.S. Intellectual properties & military secrets!
IMITATION truly IS the SINCEREST FORM of FLATTERY!!!
APK
P.S.=> You LOSE dumbfuck (badly) & UNTIL YOU PROVE ALL THE ENTRIES BAD using wildcards CREATES FALSE POSITIVES (going to "wildcard" ALL of say, webhost000.com? Not all sites in it are BAD dumbo) - hosts & SPECIFIC KNOWN BAD SITES don't create those false positives WILDCARDS do dumbass... apk
And once again, completely irrelevant. Hosts files have zero to do with caching browser sessions so stop spamming your crap on any discussion about a browser.
"Freedom in the USA is not the ability to do what you want. It is the ability to stop others from doing what THEY want"
As if reliably disabling cache in Chrome for development purposes wasn't difficult enough...
Hosts resolve & LOAD the pages faster - period (faster vs. DNS on resolution & SAFER vs. US DHS issues DNS redirect is HUGE danger (not w/ hosts vs.) https://threatpost.com/gov-war... & ICANN ISSUES SAME WARNING https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... for SURE!
* PLUS hosts remove the 40++% of a page that's ADS (then toss on scripts for tracking too) & you LOAD FAR FASTER, no questions asked!
APK
P.S.=> Lastly you STUPID FUCK (since I already answered this): The browser ITSELF does the CACHING you DUMB FUCK (& the OS kernelmode diskcache does ALSO (along w/ hosts cached in RAM too))... apk
Hmm... I feel like there is some confusion about the nature of advertising here. Probably too complicated a topic? One of the dimensions is the old struggle between substance and presentation, and another major dimension involves privacy versus relevance. The more technical dimension of how fast the ads are displayed seems relatively minor to me. There's also an element of propaganda involved, insofar as improved caching is part of it. I frankly believe the liars are more concerned with the number of repetitions than the honest people. The liars know that they need to repeat their lies frequently to give them a greater veneer of truth...
If you actually have the best value for a certain customer, then all you need to do is inform the customer about what you have and how much it costs. That's NOT how most advertising works. Rather than making great products, there are just a lot of fuzzy attempts to persuade customers that "good enough" products are actually "superior" and worth high, even exorbitant, prices. In the best cases, some of the products actually are superior, but producing superior products is always much more expensive (and less effective in competition) than flogging good enough.
Of course this is already an effectively dead discussion on Slashdot. There should be some mechanism whereby the lifespan of discussions could be extended. Hmm... Perhaps allow late participants to add special mod points?
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Topic's LOADING WEBPAGES FASTER. Hosts do it resolving faster vs unsafe DNS, blocking ads + scripts. You're a troll STALKING APK by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous like the loser do nothing nobody you are. APK's method works! Everyone knows it. You haven't created a better tool you jealous loser.
I use hosts to go faster. Hosts block ads and scripts that track me plus slowing me down if not infecting me. Thanks for a good tool APK. The DNS favorite sites in hosts at the top the way you do it in your program helps load me faster too.
It's clear you LOSE w/ UNSAFE DNS US DHS issues DNS redirect is HUGE danger https://threatpost.com/gov-war... & ICANN ISSUES SAME WARNING https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... but NOT w/ HOSTS that let you bypass DNS poisoning & resolve you FASTER TOO stupid (& avoid DNS requestlog tracking too).
* Hosts SPECIFICS don't FUCKUP like redirect poisoned DNS & IF I need specifics, even vs. DGA?
DGA tracker e.g. #1: https://www.forcepoint.com/blo...
DGA tracker e.g. #2 https://www.forcepoint.com/blo...
* YOU LOSE YOU STUPID LITTLE FUCK, lol!
APK
P.S.=> Hosts specifics even vs. a DGA don't screwup & give SPECIFICS that WILDCARDS WILL CREATE FALSE POSITIVES ON dumbo - YOU'VE CREATED A BETTER TOOL THAN MY HOSTS PROGRAM YOURSELF FROM YOUR OWN CODE? Answer THAT & PROVE it (you can't LOSER, lol)... apk
Thanks & big win was over DGA idiot w/ false positive creating overhead riddled wildcards in DNS https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... which THAT DIMWIT I totally DESTROYED in the post before it (his bs where I put out DGA tracker lists)!
DNS he depends on w/ wildcards - & WHAT does he STUPIDLY depend on?
* DNS is a SECURITY NIGHTMARE & even DHS & ICANN said so VERY RECENTLY (like this week, lol).
APK
P.S.=> US DHS issues DNS redirect is HUGE danger (not w/ hosts vs.) https://threatpost.com/gov-war... & ICANN ISSUES SAME WARNING https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... ... apk
Hmm... I feel like there is some confusion about the nature of advertising here.
I was honestly thinking more about e-commerce sites than sites whose primary source of revenue is advertising. I don't see any disconnect in the logic, however. Page loads faster, consumer browses faster, server loads are lowered, consumer appreciates experience more, consumer uses web site more. Profit????
LOL - you FAIL (I block DGA stupid & it does that) + you assume those last: They don't (spam & I let email filters handle those) they are ephemeral.
* You also made the GIANT MISTAKE arth1 did assuming they can BOTH generate & MANAGE them (they won't even FIT ON DISK dumbo) https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
YOUR BIGGEST MISTAKE is DEPENDING on wildcard using DNS which has HUGE ISSUES now US DHS issues DNS redirect is HUGE danger (not w/ hosts vs.) https://threatpost.com/gov-war... & ICANN ISSUES SAME WARNING https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
APK
P.S.=> It's 1 thing to GENERATE them, it's another to MANAGE them (& it's NOT DOABLE per arth1 HUGE FAIL, lol)... apk
Retarded bitch APK stop replying to your self, it doesn't make you look sane or smart. You lost because are nothing but failure so now you need to post some fake support. You do this all the time when you've been stomped hard as a way to lie to try and convince your self that you aren't a loser but deep down you know the truth even if you won't admit it. You can't follow simple logic or manage to stay on topic so claiming that you out thought or outsmarted anyone is another of your lies that you got caught in. Maybe you can go full retard and blame everything on ZIP, arth1, Zontar, khyber, Ol Olsoc, or c6gunner, or any of the others that have embarrassed you and exposed your retard lies over the years.
Oh, APK. Never change much. Keep championing hosts files.
But see a professional. You're sounding a little disorganized. Catch it in time to save suffering.
Seriously, it's enough of a memory hog right now. Adding an additional in-memory system (bfcache) is not gonna help. Or did Google decide everyone has enough memory now to get away with it, based on their telemetry?
Plus PC vs mobile, the common RAM limits of each as a trend, may have gotten far enough along to MAAAAYBE have enough room for in-memory caching, but quit being so greedy damnit!
I'm not following your logic. As long as the competitors offer roughly comparable shopping experiences, then there is no competitive advantage if the browser makes all of the websites look better. Of course the ceteris paribus is never fully the case, and the e-commerce website that has the best programmers has the advantage, but once again without regard to the browser. Actually, improving one particular browser may even upset the competitive balance if certain customers prefer the "wrong" browser, for whatever reason. (Yes, I do prefer Firefox, though I use Safari, Chrome, and even Opera for various purposes. Pretty sure at least one other on one of my smartphones.)
There is actually a lot of research on these UI topics. People do want fast responses, but they can't really measure response times very accurately.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
The answer is obvious: it's because it doesn't make sense for your particular workflow.
For my own workflow, even with three browser windows full screen on three different monitors, I soon end up with so many tabs open, the tabs shrink to where I can't read the page title, and I start to lose my mental map of how to get back to other contexts I've recently visited.
This typically happens when I'm involved in adding a lot of new information to my personal wiki, and while in the process of doing so, various small or medium refactoring projects calve off.
I fork entirely new windows and fill those full of pertinent tabs when this suits the purpose, then close the window entirely when the subtask is complete (I even have an extension which allows me to give the entire window an appropriate working title for the duration).
Other times I fork off tabs by the dozens in the current working window using middle click (middle click works just about anywhere, including drop down history lists, and weird social media overlays, though with a small number of exceptions concerning pages boasting particularly heinous JavaScript, which I preferentially flee once discovering Cthulhu's grubby fingerprints).
Other times it's just better to let tabs stack up in my tab history list.
I pretty much never close a tab without popping down the history stack to see whether I've left a task incomplete. Also, I generally don't navigate backwards page at a time. If there are twenty edit previews stacked up, I use the history list to jump directly across the entire mess.
I actually modified my wiki software to display the symbol  as the first character of every page title opened in edit mode, so that more of the useful title displays, and it's even more obvious what I need to jump across to restore a previously interrupted context.
Workflows are highly idiosyncratic. This is why you need features for all types. Mine is a complex hybrid of about five different major workflow patterns. And I use every one for a good reason, proven by the test of time.
Sometimes while adding new material to my own wiki (often starts with a survey of twenty pertinent articles located in Google search), I decide to annotate my own pages with chunks of leads scraped from pertinent Wikipedia articles. Then I discover that I need to add a handful of related pages to my wiki, so as to keep my topic map precise. Along the way, I discover that one of these Wikipedia pages has a tragically flawed lead, so I stop to fix that, but while I'm fixing that problem I have to confirm that my edit remains valid within the given citation, so I open up the citation, and discover the citation was horrible misused in the first place. So now I have to do another Google search to figure when the citation is salvageable, or if I should just slap in a better cite altogether. But while I'm doing this (now very boring task, if only for five minutes) the idle part of my brain goes "you know what, if you connect X to Y, you might actually get an interesting idea out of it."
Now the whole point of all this intensive notetaking is to generate creative ideas, so even the smallest glimmer of a creative idea is an immediate stop work order, and then I rush off to file that idea appropriately in my wiki, only to discover that it needs to be linked into page previously opened (with unsaved edits) as part of a suspended refactor.
Now I need to be very astute, and unwind exactly enough to capture the new idea, without losing partially finished work from a previous refactor, or complicating my route back so much that I lose the bubble before closing off all the broken edges.
At this point, long stacked edits in a single tab history are a godsend.
I can drop the history list down, middle click from somewhere in its depths to extract a page to edit out of sequence, then back the tab back to
The topic is loading _cached_ pages faster. Basic reading comprehension is required. Also, everyone knows this is you APK, stop pretending to be other people who defend your idiocy.
"Freedom in the USA is not the ability to do what you want. It is the ability to stop others from doing what THEY want"
Look the retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski is now conversing with himself. He must have forgotten that he posted some unsigned comments to make it look like someone supports him or his multiple personality disorder is not under control anymore. Unfortunately his pretend friends write just like him and if they aren't pretend then they are even bigger retards than he is as they always come out after he has been stomped hard and isn't defending himself anymore.
See subject & does what you say matter now? Not vs. US DHS issues DNS redirect is HUGE danger (not w/ hosts vs.) https://threatpost.com/gov-war... & ICANN ISSUES SAME WARNING https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
YOU CAN'T TRUST DNS RIGHT NOW & it uses WILDCARDS (inefficient & cause false positives)!
What do YOU suggest to use vs. DGA? Wildcards (lol) & DNS!
HOW DO I GET SPECIFIC BLOCKING INFO. vs. DGA ATTACK?
DGA tracker e.g. #1: https://www.forcepoint.com/blo...
DGA tracker e.g. #2 https://www.forcepoint.com/blo...
(You got PLAYED - you PLAYED YOURSELF, lol!)
APK
P.S.=> I know EXACTLY how it ALL works - you don't apparently! I cover even DGA attacks with SPECIFICS - not false positive generating wildcarding tools like VULNERABLE DNS dumbo... you lose! apik
You got played. You professionally played yourself. You lose and Apk totalled you easily https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
Title of article = "Chrome Should Get 'Extremely Fast' at Loading a Whole Lot of Web Pages" & what do hosts do? Make pages load faster!
A quote from another article: "Blocking ads and trackers has long been known to improve browser performance" FROM https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
QUESTION: WHAT DO HOSTS FILES DO STUPID AUTISMO? ANSWER = THEY BLOCK ADS & TRACKERS!
APK
P.S.=> Thus, they make BROWSERS LOAD PAGES FASTER you autistic MORON, lol - & YOU built a BETTER PROGRAM FOR IT THAN I HAVE? Hell no - you're just another DO-NOTHING "ne'er-do-well" puny brain-damaged "AUTISMO", a menial with NO REAL SKILLS, lol... apk
See subject - IF I encounter a DGA I find trackers for it & get SPECIFIC precise info on what to block https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... MINUS the false positives caused by WILDCARDS in SECURITY ISSUE LADEN systems like DNS (it's got issues in redirect poisoning shown there with proof from ICANN & DHS).
APK
P.S.=> Hosts always win... apk
I see that retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski's pretend friend is here to defend him again. Sorry shit for brains all of your work is made pointless by a wildcard DNS entry and a few lines of code to generate random sub domains that will all be directed to the same location using the wildcard DNS entry. Your retarded ass even admitted that you can't store the number of entries needed to block all subdomains at a single level deep let alone all possiable sub domains. You could only present a toy problem that has nothing to do with sub domains because you are just too fucking dumb to actually understand the problem. If you aren't APK then you are an even bigger fucking retard than he is, but since you only show up after his ass got stomped and then only post right after he made a post it is really just you the retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski posting fake support like the loser you are.
Sorry retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski you were the one who got played. You are the one who keep posting the fake support posts for your self. You are the one who's work offers no security since you can't block all subdomains even a single level deep (or even some value of them approaching 0.01%), yet alone all possible subdomains under a domain. You are the one who doesn't understand how a DNS wildcard entry works. Face it you are a failure just like your work but are such a loser you won't even admit it to your self. Everything you have done amounts to nothing, especially when your crowning achievements are living in a $1 house in the slums of the dump of the city of Syracuse, and writing a string sorter that you call security software that is proven to provide no real security.
Retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski stop referring to yourself in the 3rd person, it doesn't make you look sane or smart. Instead it makes you look like a giant fucking loser who can't admit that his ass got stomped hard. If you aren't APK then you are an even bigger fucking retard than he has proven to be as he isn't even trying to counter the valid and true criticism of him and his work. Reality is that we all know it is you posting fake support of your self and getting caught in more of your shit bag lies.
Try again retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski. It is you that keeps getting caught in your lies and falsehoods. Then it gets exposed and you are forced to pretend someone actually supports you and get caught in more of your lies. Your retarded ass keeps getting stomped but then all you know is failure so it is to be expected. If you aren't APK then you are an even bigger retard than he is as he isn't even bother to defend himself against the perfectly valid and entirely true criticisms of him and his work. Keep telling your self you aren't a loser and maybe some day you will actually believe it but deep down you know the truth about your $1 house and string sorter.
Title of this /. article "Chrome Should Get 'Extremely Fast' at Loading a Whole Lot of Web Pages" & other says same by blocking ads/scripts etc. to make you go faster too.
* It's WHAT HOSTS DOES (& TONS more too).
APK
P.S.=> Let the browser cache - I always said it did (so does the OS kernelmode diskcache) but the title of THIS ARTICLE ON /. is about SPEED - hosts give you THAT & FAR MORE (security, reliability, anonymity also (triple bonus))... apk