Issue 131732 in chromium: Chrome Android Tabs freeze when opening new tab from news.google.com

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Labels: OS-Android Pri-2

New issue 131732 by TodMicha...@gmail.com: Chrome Android Tabs freeze when
opening new tab from news.google.com
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=131732

Chrome Version: June 6 2012 release
Application Version (from "Chrome Settings > About Chrome"):
URLs (if applicable): https://news.google.com


From "Android Settings > About Phone/Tablet"
Build number: IML74K.US_epad-9.4.2.21-20120323
Device: ASUS Transformer Prime TF201-PAD-0214

Behavior in Android Browser (if applicable):

This has been a long standing problem since about 2 versions ago from
Chrome Beta for android on both my Transformer TF201 and TF101. It does NOT
occur on my Galaxy Nexus.
Issue: When viewing https://news.google.com and opening an article, it
attempts to open article in a new tab. If you just click on the article
link the new tab attempts to open, spins to display, then "completes" but
has no content. At this point, every tab, including the original
news.google.com tab is inert. The only way to recover is to close every tab
and then open a new tab. A workaround is that if you long press the link
and then manually choose "open in new tab" it will work.

Known Steps to reproduce:
1) Have an ASUS Transformer (original or prime) on ICS with latest Chrome
2) Logon to https://news.google.com (preferably under your sign in profile).
3) Choose an article and click it.
4) A new tab will open and the article will attempt to load.
5) After a few moments, the spinning "load" indicator on the tab will cease
but the tab will be blank.
6) All other open tabs will also now no longer work to load/refresh.

Workaround on the Transformer - do not click a link, long click link and
choose Open in new tab. (Of course if you forget to do this one time, you
are fubar)

NOTE: Effect is not seen on the Galaxy Prime -- that opens properly on a
simple link click.
NOTE: Effect is not seen on all pages with links. Many websites with links
that open to new tabs do work. It is seen every time on the news.google.com
site.
NOTE: First BETA of Chrome back in February or so did not have this issue,
however, every subsequent release has had this.

Expected result:
See above

Actual result:
See above

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Comment #1 on issue 131732 by TodMicha...@gmail.com: Chrome Android Tabs

freeze when opening new tab from news.google.com
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=131732

After the recent firmware update ASUS pushed out this week, the browser
tabs seem to be working correctly now. I haven't tested on the TF101 yet,
but since it didn't get any firmware upgrade, I'd expect no difference. The
TF201 does seem to be working correctly at this early stage in testing.
I've been able to open tabs from the hyperlinks and have no lockups. I
still get too many WAIT/REPORT process locks during long page loads, but
that's a different issue.

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Updates:
Status: Duplicate
Mergedinto: 113234

Comment #2 on issue 131732 by srika...@chromium.org: Chrome Android Tabs

freeze when opening new tab from news.google.com
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=131732

woohoo !!! Yes, we are quite hopeful that the firmware update (which has
important driver fixes that are necessary for Chrome to work better). I am
combining this bug with crbug/113234 which is our tracking bug for this) -
and also update the bug with your update from here.

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Comment #3 on issue 131732 by lorri...@gmail.com: Chrome Android Tabs

freeze when opening new tab from news.google.com
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=131732

Hi,
This issue happens on my Tf300TG and galaxy tab 10.1 so it is not just a
Asus problem. I actually suspect tegra since it works fine on my gnex.

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Comment #4 on issue 131732 by denny...@hotmail.com: Chrome Android Tabs

freeze when opening new tab from news.google.com
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=131732

I have this issue as well, using htc one x with tegra

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Comment #6 on issue 131732 by ayo.ji...@gmail.com: Chrome Android Tabs

freeze when opening new tab from news.google.com
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=131732

Same issue here with Toshiba Thrive AT105 on ICS 4.04.