Google Chrome Browser can anticipate the pages that you might visit next and prepare those pages to load faster. How does it do it? DNS Prefetching.
Google’s upcoming netbook operating system brings to mind the question, is Google trying to take the desktop to the web?
Google Chrome started as a browser, and will soon be an operating system. Combined with some of the other Google-based capabilities, it looks more and more like Google is trying to move the desktop to the web.
Excerpt from Web Geek's Guide to Google Chrome
