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Navigational prefetch: follow redirects

Category
Performance
Type
Chromium catches up
Status
In developer trial (Behind a flag) (Chrome 122)
Intent stage
None

Summary

Today, Chromium does not follow redirects when prefetching for navigation (most notably from speculation rules). With this change, it will follow redirects, even cross-origin and cross-site redirects. This is consistent with following redirects during other kinds of fetches, though additional privacy constraints apply to cross-site navigational prefetches.

Standards & signals

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