PREFETCHING BINARY DATA FOR USE BY A BROWSER PLUGIN

A web page having content and instructions is stored on a tangible non-transitory computer-readable medium. A browser application executes on a processor of a client device. When the browser application interprets the instructions in the web page, the instructions cause the browser application to display the content on the client device, transfer binary data to a system cache of the client device prior to the functionality of a browser plugin being invoked, where the binary data is used only by the browser plugin configured to operate in the browser application, and invoke functionality of the browser plugin, so that the browser plugin accesses the binary data via the system cache during execution.