Quicklink Chrome Extension

Speed up navigations by automatically prefetching in-viewport links ⚡
What is Quicklink Chrome Extension?
Quicklink Chrome Extension is a tool designed to enhance your online browsing. It prefetches any link that appears in the view, quickly retrieving pages from the browser cache rather than the network. This process significantly boosts web navigation speed. The extension also allows customization of ignored URL patterns for an even smoother browsing experience.

Extension stats

Users: 874 ▼ -4
Rating: 4.25 (8)
Version: 1.3 (Last updated: 2020-11-08)
Creation date: 2020-01-19
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 732.16K

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

Quicklink Chrome Extension lets you navigate the web faster by prefetching any link that comes into the view. When clicking on them, pages are retrieved from the browser cache, instead of the network, highly improving navigation speed.

Functionality:

The extension injects and initializes Quicklink library in every site a user visits: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/quicklink. Once initialized, the library starts prefetching any links that come into the view.

It will prefetch at most 5 in-viewport links.

By default, the extension ignores URLs patterns that shouldn't be prefetched. For example, URLs containing "signup", "signin", "logout:, etc.

To add more patterns to ignore:

  1. Click on the extension icon.
  2. Pick "Options" on the drop-down menu.
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User reviews

被低估的好货,速度非常快,是我用过最快的插件,大家必须点选项‘保存,就2步
by 桑海, 2022-02-19

Awesome job. However i did end up running into site issues eventually. This likely something that can only be minimized given the nature of the extension. Been using this off/on for over a year and it's best used in addition with Extensity, another add-on that seamlessly allows the user to enable/disable chrome add-ons. So when you use QuickLinks and a page loads incorrectly, quickly disable it and reload the page. Problem solved.
by Chris Vydas, 2021-01-17

Great extension for users who browse using the keyboard and a vim extension for chrome.
by Gibb Son, 2021-01-05
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Quicklink Chrome Extension requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Quicklink Chrome Extension has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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