DNS pre-fetching stands for Domain Name System pre-fetching. When you visit a webpage, Google Chrome can look up, or pre-fetch, the IP addresses of all links on the webpage. Browsers use the IP address to load a webpage, so by looking up this information in advance, any links you click on the webpage will load faster.
This feature is on by default. Follow these steps to turn it off:
- Click the wrench menu
. - Select Options.
- Click the Under the Hood tab and find the 'Privacy' section.
- Deselect the 'Use DNS pre-fetching to improve page load performance' checkbox.
- Click Close.
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