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Hover interaction in Chrome refers to the browser's use of mouse hover events as a signal to prefetch or prepare web pages before a user clicks. This technique aims to make browsing feel faster without the heavy memory costs of full prerendering. Recent experiments in Chrome Canary include hover-prefetch and a render boost that prioritizes active page loads. These changes re-open trade-offs around privacy, resource use, and potential side effects for websites and users. The tag covers discussions on how hover-based optimizations work, their impact on performance, and the underlying Chromium code changes.
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    Chrome hover-prefetch and render boost: faster browsing without full prerender

    Google's work on making Chrome feel faster has quietly returned to an old idea with a modern twist: the browser is now experimenting with using simple mouse hovers as a signal to prepare pages before you click, and it has added a lower-level "render boost" that gives active page loads more...
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