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Re:Simulating Website Thumbnails Using Iframes by daenz on Monday January 18, 2016 @01:50PM (#10926065)
> This is so totally messed up. Having an entire DOM with all the associated scripts running live, just for a thumbnail.

Agreed. And suppose the "thumbnailed" website had a thumbnail of the parent linking site...

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Re:Simulating Website Thumbnails Using Iframes by stanmancan on Monday January 18, 2016 @02:48PM (#10926450)
Just tested this out, IE and Firefox will only load each page twice, it won't re-load the original page. Chrome goes a bit deeper, it will load each page twice, but then stops.
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