ajax.googleapis.com and Chrome killing NBR?

Greg · 02-02-2012, 06:31 AM

I'm running the latest version of Chrome when I visit NBR and every once in a while (10%) Chrome locks up when I open up any NBR page. Every time that happens it hangs on loading data from ajax.googleapis.com.

Anyone else experiencing this? I've had it happen regardless of if I'm logged into Google and/or NBR.

2.0™ · 02-02-2012, 07:31 AM

Could it be one of the add ons?

For myself, every now and again, Ad Block stops and reports that it needs more permissions when on NBR. Then a subsequent pop-up allows it to be re-enabled.

Latest version of Chrome also. v16.0.912.77

Greg · 02-02-2012, 08:20 AM

I'm running vanilla...

namaiki · 02-02-2012, 08:38 AM

I think I was experiencing something similar this. Chrome would get stuck loading at pixel.quantserve.com and would max a core of my laptop's CPU. It seemed to go away when I moved updated Chrome to the beta branch. Unfortunately, I didn't try clear cache or anything like that first.

Greg · 02-03-2012, 02:08 PM

It just happened for me with pixel.quantserve.com today. Before that it was the Google API thing. It's frozen in Chrome this very moment while I browse with IE 9. I regularly clean out Chrome so I don't that is the cause. That being said I did just kill the Chrome process, clear the cache, and then it works fine...but then again it almost always works immediately after killing the process and *not* clearing the cache.

Considering NBR is the only site this happens with I'd be surprised to see that it's really Chrome's fault.

privatejarhead · 02-08-2012, 01:00 AM

Weird, I don't experience any problems browsing NBR using SRWare Iron (a Chrome clone). Maybe it's just a problem with those particular URLs?

debguy · 02-08-2012, 07:19 AM

NBR should work fine without googleapis or quantaserve. At least I experience no regression when blocking them.

Greg · 02-09-2012, 11:53 AM

Well you might want to add b.scorecardresearch.com to that list. Chrome just locked up loading NBR again. Interesting to note but the hang time seems to be *much* greater when Chrome is doing other high bandwidth things (Netflix, Hulu, etc). Something NBR is loading is either bandwidth intensive or very high latency.

Maybe it's time to switch browsers.