DNS pre-fetching stands for Domain Name System pre-fetching. When you visit a webpage, Google Chrome can look up, or pre-fetch, the IP addresses of all links on the webpage. Browsers use the IP address to load a webpage, so by looking up this information in advance, any links you click on the webpage will load faster.
This feature is enabled by default. Follow these steps to turn it off (for Windows):
- Click the Tools
menu.
- Select Options.
- Click the Under the Hood tab and find the "Privacy" section.
- Deselect the "Use DNS pre-fetching to improve page load performance" checkbox.
- Click Close.