Firefox on the same machine, at the same time, has no problems accessing webpages. Chromium has a not-quite-every-time habit of hanging, with the twirly indicator going backwards, saying "Waiting for example.com". It will sit like that for minutes at a time, sometimes you get a page loaded, sometimes not.
I know that it is not the webpage in question because (A) it can happen on any site and (B) some of the sites are mine, so I have monitored the server load at the time and not observed a problem.
However, what is interesting is that I can click a link in Chromium, go to my SSH terminal for the server with tail --follow access.log running, and see that the request is not actually being received (until it is, at which point, Chromium receives + renders the page at normal speed).
So DNS? I've put the test site in my hosts file, to eliminate this one. Still the problem exhibits.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: chromium-browser 18.0.1025.168~r134367-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 6 15:35:03 2012
Desktop-Session:
DESKTOP_SESSION = gnome-shell
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-gnome-shell:/etc/xdg
XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/gnome-shell:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
Env:
MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""
I think:
Importance: Undecided -> Medium.