Prerendered pages are swapped in at browser::Navigate time.

chrome/browser/ui/browser_navigator.cc

Index: chrome/browser/ui/browser_navigator.cc
diff --git a/chrome/browser/ui/browser_navigator.cc b/chrome/browser/ui/browser_navigator.cc
index 98b0395e954173af80c3a7be0e2c58f2ca943075..dfa2f0cac23653e67e2e4fd6dad5cc23d56c6519 100644
--- a/chrome/browser/ui/browser_navigator.cc
+++ b/chrome/browser/ui/browser_navigator.cc
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 #include "chrome/browser/google/google_util.h"
 #include "chrome/browser/prefs/incognito_mode_prefs.h"
 #include "chrome/browser/prefs/pref_service.h"
+#include "chrome/browser/prerender/prerender_manager.h"
+#include "chrome/browser/prerender/prerender_manager_factory.h"
 #include "chrome/browser/profiles/profile.h"
 #include "chrome/browser/rlz/rlz.h"
 #include "chrome/browser/tab_contents/tab_util.h"
@@ -359,6 +361,17 @@ void InitializeExtraHeaders(browser::NavigateParams* params,
 #endif
 }
 
+bool SwapInPrerender(TabContentsWrapper* target_contents, const GURL& url) {
+  // See if there is a PrerenderManager and swap in then.
+  prerender::PrerenderManager* prerender_manager =
+      prerender::PrerenderManagerFactory::GetForProfile(
+          target_contents->profile());
+  if (!prerender_manager)
+    return false;
+  return prerender_manager->MaybeUsePrerenderedPage(
+      target_contents->web_contents(), url);
+}
+
 }  // namespace
 
 namespace browser {
@@ -533,6 +546,10 @@ void Navigate(NavigateParams* params) {
     InitializeExtraHeaders(params, params->target_contents->profile(),
                            &extra_headers);
 
+    if (SwapInPrerender(params->target_contents, url)) {

[dominich, 2012/02/28 16:21:00]

nit: you don't need the {} here.

[cbentzel, 2012/02/29 18:16:13]

Done.

+      return;
+    }
+
     // Try to handle non-navigational URLs that popup dialogs and such, these
     // should not actually navigate.
     if (!HandleNonNavigationAboutURL(url)) {