Re: chromium-140.0.7339.127 page loading failures

[Paul Ripke <stix%stix.id.au@localhost>]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 01:08:10PM +0200, Ramiro Aceves wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have experienced frequent problems with chromium-140.0.7339.127 (it also
> happened to older versions). I suddenly stops loading pages, I try to open
> new tabs but it does not work. I am forced to restart chromium to work
> properly.
> 
> Have you experienced the same? Chromium is the only browser that works just
> fine in my amd64 Intel Nuc 8i7BEH PC. Mozilla Firefox acceleration works not
> ok, Google Maps maps do not load properly, youtube videos sometimes work
> only in black and white (in my Thinkpad youtube videos do not work at all
> and must disable hardware accel in Firefox config to load properly some
> pages...)
> 
> Chromium is my only properly (almost) working WEB browsing program in
> NetBSD.

I, too, have seen this since basically forever. It seems something runs
amiss with the "Utility: Network Service" subprocess - restarting just that
process from within the Chrome "Task Manager" gets things unstuck. I haven't
yet tried debugging this problem.

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