On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 07:16 -0500, Dan Winship wrote: > 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.
I agree, although it might make sense to make it a build-time option. Marco, in your changelog you say that you are 'Backporting' - backporting from what? Cheers, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[email protected]> GNOME Project _______________________________________________ webkit-gtk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-gtk
