![]() ![]() ![]() Some may wonder if it has been removed entirely because of its absence there. Users who check the privacy settings page will notice that the option is not listed there anymore. The release of Google Chrome 84 to the Stable channel brought another change to the link preloading feature of the browser. Chrome 84: Preload setting moved to a new location Google Chrome would prioritize links and load content of resources with the highest likelihood that a user would visit them. The company introduced preloading of content in later versions of Chrome. Google stated that the feature would speed up the loading by approximately 250ms when compared to cold connections (without fetching). DNS fetching was designed to retrieve the IP addresses of links on visited webpages to speed up the loading time on activation. When Google launched Chrome, it integrated a feature that it called DNS Fetching back then. Short answer: it appears that Google renamed the preference, and that the option to turn off DNS prefetching and the preloading of content is still supported. If you set the preference previously, you may wonder if it has been removed from the browser or whether it was moved to another location. You find the option at a different location now and we have updated the guide to reflect the change. ![]() Update: Google moved the setting in Chrome 83 and newer. ![]()
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