Prerendered tabs use the same SessionStorage namespace as the tab that triggered the prerender.

chrome/browser/autocomplete/autocomplete_edit.cc

Index: chrome/browser/autocomplete/autocomplete_edit.cc
diff --git a/chrome/browser/autocomplete/autocomplete_edit.cc b/chrome/browser/autocomplete/autocomplete_edit.cc
index a7551aa24aa5ca1e8bbf10a5488f898e6d9ccc0a..8ee62a3a8e637b3127ed7ed558851e4f9144eb33 100644
--- a/chrome/browser/autocomplete/autocomplete_edit.cc
+++ b/chrome/browser/autocomplete/autocomplete_edit.cc
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #include "chrome/common/chrome_notification_types.h"
 #include "chrome/common/chrome_switches.h"
 #include "chrome/common/url_constants.h"
+#include "content/browser/renderer_host/render_view_host.h"
 #include "content/browser/user_metrics.h"
 #include "content/public/browser/notification_service.h"
 #include "googleurl/src/gurl.h"
@@ -1037,8 +1038,13 @@ void AutocompleteEditModel::DoPrerender(const AutocompleteMatch& match) {
     TabContentsWrapper* tab = controller_->GetTabContentsWrapper();
     prerender::PrerenderManager* prerender_manager =
         prerender::PrerenderManagerFactory::GetForProfile(tab->profile());
-    if (prerender_manager)
-      prerender_manager->AddPrerenderFromOmnibox(match.destination_url);
+    if (prerender_manager) {
+      RenderViewHost* current_host = tab->tab_contents()->render_view_host();
+      if (current_host) {

[Peter Kasting, 2011/11/02 17:53:56]

Can this actually be NULL (maybe for about:blank)?  If not we shouldn't have the
conditional check.

[cbentzel, 2011/11/02 18:14:14]

There's two periods during the TabContents constructor and destructor where it
can be NULL, but not at this point. I'll remove the check. Thanks.

+        prerender_manager->AddPrerenderFromOmnibox(
+            match.destination_url, current_host->session_storage_namespace());
+      }
+    }
   }
 }