Browser is Chrome 12.0.742.122. It doesn't happen on Firefox. "It" is:
- sometimes I can't click on links and eventually I get Chrome's "dead tab" notification
- other times it keeps loading, even though while I wait for it to load I can go to, say, my user page and have it load right away
- twice I've gotten weird graphical bugs on it. Screenshots: 1 2
To reiterate, it only happens on the front page, the one you get when you go to lesswrong.com. Other pages are fine. Perhaps it's the map?
Firefox 5 is broken for slow connections - when I attempt to open multiple tabs, for example scrolling down HN and opening interesting looking articles in new tabs, later tabs often hang and need to be halted and reloaded to actually download. I am seriously considering going back to FF 3.6 since this did NOT happen before. And FF5 is considered the "stable" version.
ADDED: I think that part of the problem is an "enhanced" upgrade cycle. They have to make changes to justify the "upgrades" (or at least the new version) and stupid people think that new is more important than working good.
When you say, "slow connection," how slow do you mean? Dial-up slow?