I'm running 44.0.2403.125 on OpenBSD amd64. I noticed that running Chromium always results in a connection to a Google IP, regardless of the site I'm going to. Firefox does not display this behavior with the identical website. All the privacy options that would send data to Google are disabled.

Running netstat -an while going to the OpenBSD website via the command "chrome www.openbsd.org" results in the following connections

74.125.226.15.443
129.128.5.194.80
129.128.5.194.80

Doing the same with Firefox results in expected connections to the 129.x IPs, but not the connection to the 74.x Google IP .

Sometimes the connection to Google will be the only connection made. Last night I noticed this while going to www.openbsd.org with Chromium using the same command and ran both netstat and tcpdump. Netstat showed only one connection to a 74.x IP. The only traffic sent was to lga15s42-in-f15.1e100.net.https over TLS, despite pointing the browser directly to OpenBSD's site via normal HTTP. The DNS query was for www.gstatic.com.

This seems unaffected by cookies or cache. Anyone know what's causing this or how to stop it? I don't want connections being made to Google when I'm not interacting with their services or sites.

edit: Well, I have found this report where Google says it's a feature not a bug and that they won't fix it https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=498272

Still wondering if I can disable it though.

Tried to get it all in the title. I have Flash 16.0.0.287 installed, it works on Firefox. Full Chromium version is 42.0.2285.0

Is Flash broken in the latest Chromium? Or something wrong with my install? My Chrome://plugins only shows very few entries right now...

I intend on using it mainly for internet and note taking. What should I consider beforehand? What are some perks? Drawbacks?

EDIT: I have the Chromebook, I got one.

This seems like a good time to ask again. Last time I asked was a couple years ago.

So, I own a chromebook, specifically the ACER C730. I noticed that this model is still in planned for google play support, but some of the other planned and beta channels have become stable. Should I give up hope or just keep waiting?

Link to support list - https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-supporting-android-apps

I have have had very frustrating experience for many months using the Internet at my desk job. The main symptom was that some page loads would have extreme hang times while other would load rather normally. Once a page was hung on loading, subsequent loads from the same domain would seem to be stuck behind that one in a queue.

This behavior seemed somewhat random. We are behind a proxy of course. For a long time, I just thought maybe corp IT had a bad node in a proxy cluster. Other employees are always complaining anyways, so I just accepted it as how it was.

I got really annoyed yesterday for some reason i decided to Google my symptom. I came across the idea of unchecking "Predict network actions to improve page load performance". Welp, that was it. Issue gone.

Thoughts?

I am new to Chromium and new to Open Source, so I would like to get familiar with the code. I am about to build it so can I ask how you became familiar with Chromium?

Sorry if this question seems a bit stupid.

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