Hi all, I have a weird issue with the Chromium web browser. My first question is whether others are seeing the same (i.e. likely a bug). My second (if it’s just me) is what can I do to fix it?
The problem is that in startup settings at chrome://settings/onStartup I use the “Continue where you left off” option so that all tabs/windows get restored when I reopen the application. What happens though is that when I start the browser, the tab that is active (showing when the window appears) gets stuck loading.
What I mean by this is that the web site icon on the tab shows activity (loading) and sits there forever, never completing and showing an empty tab forever. I have to copy the URL, close the tab, open a new one, paste the URL and press enter to get the site to load.
Note that it’s not even a network issue! If I exit the browser with a “settings” tab showing (e.g. the URL is chrome://settings
) and then restart it, then the settings tab does not load! It just stays empty forever showing nothing with the icon having a “rotating circle” animation around it as if something is “loading”.
Note that this happens EVERY restart reliably (not a random thing) and also that the reload button is showing an “X” icon (i.e. to stop loading). Pressing on X turns the button into the circular arrow for reload but the tab icon is still animating the circle around it as if it is “loading in progress”. Hitting reload at this point does nothing BUT eventually I get the pop-up dialog saying “the page is unresponsive” and if I press “exit” I get the “Aw Snap!” tab with “SIGILL” showing when I press “Learn more”.
So, is anyone else experiencing this?
What can I do to fix it?
P.S. Here is the package info:
$ yay -Qi chromium
Name : chromium
Version : 97.0.4692.71-2
Description : A web browser built for speed, simplicity, and security
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://www.chromium.org/Home
Licenses : BSD
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : gtk3 nss alsa-lib xdg-utils libxss libcups libgcrypt ttf-liberation systemd dbus libpulse
pciutils libva desktop-file-utils hicolor-icon-theme fontconfig libjpeg icu flac snappy
libxml2 ffmpeg libwebp minizip opus harfbuzz re2 libxslt libpng freetype2
Optional Deps : pipewire: WebRTC desktop sharing under Wayland [installed]
kdialog: support for native dialogs in Plasma
org.freedesktop.secrets: password storage backend on GNOME / Xfce [installed]
kwallet: support for storing passwords in KWallet on Plasma
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 252.71 MiB
Packager : Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis@archlinux.org>
Build Date : Sun 09 Jan 2022 12:00:11 GMT
Install Date : Sun 09 Jan 2022 17:31:18 GMT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature