Google's new Web Accelerator Program
Google's effort to speed the pace of Web browsing quickly aggravated some early users, who say that the software is delivering them Web pages under other users' logins and breaking Web applications.
In order to speed up the display of pages generally, Google Web Accelerator may store copies of web pages, including prefetched pages that you did not visit, in the Google Web Accelerator cache on your machine. This is separate from your browser's cache, which only identifies pages that you actually visited.
Learn more about the new Google Web Accelerator
Google's Web Accelerator Breaks Web Apps and Causes Security Issues - Google's approach has had some unintended consequences. Google officials Friday confirmed that the company was aware of as many as five sites where Web Accelerator was returning users cached pages under other people's user names.
Google Lauches Web Accelerator Tool - Called the Google Web Accelerator, the new downloadable application will supposedly use the power of Google’s global computer network to allow pages to load faster on a users machine.
Google's new Web Accelerator a little OverZealous - The accelerator scours a page and prefetches the content behind each link. This gives the illusion of pages loading faster (since they’ve already been pre-loaded behind the scenes).
Here’s the problem: Google is essentially clicking every link on the page (including links like 'delete this' or 'cancel that', and to make matters worse, Google ignores the Javascript confirmations.
So, if you have an 'Are you sure you want to delete this?' Javascript confirmation behind that 'delete' link, Google ignores it and performs the action anyway.
Visit http://webaccelerator.google.com to download and install the Google Web Accelerator.
Unfortunately you will need to have a broadband connection as Google Web Accelerator is currently optimized to speed up web page loading for broadband connections rather than those on dial-up.
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