> in Safari and Chrome with the default settings, there is a native browser
feature that, when searching through the address bar (Google powered) by
default silently starts loading the url of >the top result shown below the
address bar.
Ah, I see, you mean searches happening "outside" the
Yes, I checked Chrome/Mozilla as well and saw no evidence of prefetching
for Wikipedia pages.
Related point: it does appear that for media counts, that prefetching by
the Media Viewer might change the counts:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_Lake/Traffic/Mediacounts#Corner_cases
I just quickly tried this out live looking for a prefetch webrequest from
my chrome browser for a enwiki, enwiktionary and wikidata page but no
prefetching happened.
After a quick search I found
https://www.technipages.com/google-chrome-prefetch and confirmed that the
prefetch setting is ON in my
