[webkit-gtk] dns prefetching knob

[Dan Winship]

On 03/08/2011 07:07 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> I created a bug report to add a DNS prefetch knob but I was advised to
> also send the patch to the mailing list.
> 
> With this knob I can make the web browser I wrote (xxxterm
> http://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/XXXTerm ) much snappier on sites
> with lots of embedded domain names (news.google.com for example).

The entire point of DNS prefetching is that it's supposed to make the
browser faster. If it's not doing that, then the right thing would be to
remove it entirely, not to add a configurable "be broken / don't be
broken" option.

But I'm pretty sure the problem is just that we're prefetching too much:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41630. (Although I think it's
gotten a little better since then. I don't see the spurious "no such
host"s any more...)

-- Dan