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The speculationrulesapi tag covers discussions about Chrome's hover-prefetch and render boost features, which use mouse hover signals to prepare pages before a click and prioritize active page loads. These changes aim to improve browsing speed without the memory costs of full prerendering, but they also raise trade-offs around privacy, resource use, and website side effects. The tag focuses on browser performance optimizations and their implications for users and developers.
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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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