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After some time browsing in Chrome (30 minutes on average, varies widely), it suddenly can't receive any data from the Internet whatsoever.

Trying to go to any address displays the "Sending request..." message indefinitely. This happens out of the blue, not after doing anything special. Other browsers continue to work perfectly.

Quitting and relaunching Chrome always solves the problem, but nothing else works.

This problem is really annoying; it has been that way for many versions, even the latest one as of now. Has anyone else experienced this problem? How can I fix it?

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Are you using any Chrome add-ins/extensions? Are you behind/using a proxy? Do you use a program similar to SpeedBit Video Accelerator? – Windos Jul 12 '11 at 21:21
@Josh King Yes, I use Speedbit Video Accelerator, and I have some extensions including youtube video downloaders. It seems related to youtube or videos because just now I had the problem (stuck at "Waiting for www.youtube.com...") but other websites like google or wikipedia were working (usually doesn't happen that way). I have disabled a few extensions but Video Accelerator is still on, will see if the problem persists. – SemMike Jul 14 '11 at 19:06
I'm seeing the same thing, with no proxies and nothing like the video accelerator. Firefox on the same machine loads the same page in one-second-or-less sorts of time; chrome is still hanging a minute later. – James Moore Feb 28 at 3:46
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Close the Speedbit Video Accelerator program (force the process to close if you have to), you'll notice Chrome starts playing nice again. I'm not sure why Chrome has issue with it... but apparently it does.

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Thanks, as you said the video accelerator process (called "service") also needs to be killed and then Chrome works again without even restarting it. If I relaunch video accelerator, the problem comes back very quickly even though chrome can't even use it anymore (the "accelerating" message isn't displayed, whereas it's displayed when playing from Firefox), very annoying. Goodbye Video Accelerator then... – SemMike Jul 15 '11 at 8:16
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I had some odd intermittent problems with things not loading properly from cache a few days ago after a recent Chrome update. These were items that would have been cached before the update and included the CSS and JS from stackoverflow.com. It probably is not be the same thing, but if it helps, clearing the cache did it for me.

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Thanks, but I have tried that many times already, it didn't work. Some kind of cache related to Speedbit Video Accelerator (not the usual browser cache which can be deleted) seems to accumulate and cause problems when it's too big, so that after some time all hits to www.youtube.com (or other video site I suppose) stalls, although "waiting for cache" isn't displayed, just "waiting for www.youtube.com". Only restarting chrome works. – SemMike Jul 15 '11 at 8:20
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