Apple added a significant new feature to Safari in version 5.0.1. It hasn’t garnered much attention and you may not have heard about it. It’s called DNS prefetching, and its purpose is to speed up the ...

Browser VPN extensions for Google Chrome may be leaking DNS queries to external observers thanks to a Chrome feature called DNS prefetching. DNS prefetching works when Chrome makes DNS requests before ...

Chrome, a Web browser developed by search engine giant Google, is used by about 20 percent of desktop Internet users, according to Net Marketshare. The browser promises lightning fast startup, loading ...

This is a simple troubleshooting tip to help resolve occasionally slow or partial page loads, or when a Web page cannot be found. Joe is a seasoned Mac veteran with years of experience on the platform ...

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