Different preload settings in browser

[Muball00]

Can anyone tell me what the difference is between the different preload settings in the stock Android browser. I see one that says "preload available links", which you can either check or uncheck, and then under bandwidth management, there is an option that just says "preload webpages", which you can set to always, only via wifi, or never.

 

[AZgl1500]

If you will think about it a moment, you will select 'never'.

as each time you open the browser, it will try to download every link it knows about. Talk about slowing things down, and wasting bandwidth.......

I have mine set to never.

If I do select a homepage, it is always www.google.com

 

[Muball00]

So it would try to download all webpages that are in your history / cache once you open the browser? Do both of those options do the same thing or are they different? I'm just wondering if one is similar to prerender in Chrome where it preloads a website based on what it predicts you will click on next.

 

[AZgl1500]

uh, no... it will not load anything that is in the Cache Folder.....
all of that is just images, files, etc....
once they are referred to, they are stored in Cache, so that the next time your browser sees a reference to an image, it does not download that image again, it just displays the image in Cache.

The links referred to, are tabs you keep open, if you set your browser up to only have one tab open, and to only open up a "homepage", and here I use www.google.com for that because it contains the least data on the web for a home page... and it is easily recognizable, and it is always fast.

the browser "should only load" the homepage.

 

[Muball00]

Ok, I think I understand now...the links it's preloading are other open tabs. Thanks.

 

[PyroSporker]

Set homepage to address "about:blank"
Zero load