Bug#627348: chromium: "New Tab" often unresponsive the first time I start Chromium

[Jonathan Nieder]

tags 627348 + confirmed
reassign 627348 gecko-mediaplayer 0.9.9.2-1
severity 627348 grave
tags 627348 + upstream
affects 627348 + chromium chromium-browser
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Hi again,

Torbjörn Andersson wrote:

> * Clear the cache.
> * Open Chromium. Wait for the "unresponsive tab" dialog to appear,
> as it usually does. Killed the unresponsive tab.
> * Open a new tab and go to http://www.update.uu.se/~d91tan which worked fine
> * Open a new tab and go to
> http://www.update.uu.se/~d91tan/AfterTheRain which worked fine
> * Open one of the pictures in that directory. It got stuck, and
> after a while the tab was reported as unresponsive

I can reproduce this.  http://crbug.com/77274 tracks it upstream.

The Ubuntu changelog says

 Build without gconf support, which should fix the hang with chromium
 (LP: #545209).

so I imagine there is a fix or at least some more understanding
floating around on that end somewhere.  Cesare, please feel free to
reassign this back to chromium if it turns out to be a chromium
problem.