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Navigation: Ignore duplicate navigations

Category
Performance
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Proposed (Chrome Proposed)
Intent stage
None

Summary

Prevents an ongoing navigation from being unnecessarily canceled by a new, identical navigation that is initiated in quick succession. This optimization improves performance and the user experience by not wasting resources on a duplicate request, which can be caused by accidental double-clicks.

Motivation

Users often navigate to the same URL in quick succession, for example by accidentally double-clicking a link. Currently, a new navigation cancels the one already in progress. This can causes the user to wait longer for the page to load. This feature introduces a optimization to ignore such duplicate navigations, allowing the original navigation to complete. This improves the user experience with faster page loads and reduces network and server load.

Standards & signals

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