I'll give it a try.

@Timer Should we disable prefetching in case of those browsers which don't support requestIdleCallback?

I have a page that contains around 50-100 links to other pages (a site map). When prefetching starts because of the links being in the viewport, everything starts to freeze in subsequent page visits, as the server has to start answering potentially 100 requests at the same time. The server might be weak if this causes problems, but in a scenario where multiple users would go to this page, the no. of requests would be significant to probably strong enough servers as well.

My question is if this is going to help, or should I implement something like prefetching on hover instead?

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