Chromium refreshes the pages upon network connect with no way to stop it

[Volodya]

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My (and many people's that i know) workflow:

1. Open the page that you intend to read/process/comment on/etc in a new tab
2. Leave the tab open until the desired action is done (this results in many open tabs, some of which are youtube videos and such).
3. Before the reboot do not close the browser, but allow it to be shut down due to computer shutdown.
4. After the reboot, but before connecting the network open the browser and tell it to reopen the tabs.
5. Connect to the network and refresh the tabs that are needed for work.

What happens:

After upgrading from 13.10 to 14.04 all the tabs refresh themselves without being told to as soon as i connect to the network.
There seems to be no way to stop this behaviour.
I end up racing with "Ctrl+Tab - Esc - Ctrl+Tab - Esc" combination through my tabs to end the reload process.
A lot of unneeded at this time tabs take up computer resources due to flash and other multimedia content.

At one time my computer woke me at three in the morning, because my internet was down in the evening and just came on at night, so Chromium has restarted all the youtube videos for me.

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In addition to that there is a security issue that i have no time to load VPN before such loading begins. This makes the traffic that is assumed to be secure to begin through an unsecure channel.

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What i expect to happen:

No browser should load anything unless it is asked by the user to do so, and not any earlier.
Chromium should load the pages in three cases: 1) When the tab is opened. 2) When the reload is pressed. 3) Then javascript causes page reload, but only after the page was already loaded and JS began to run

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: chromium-browser 37.0.2062.120-0ubuntu0.14.04.1~pkg1049
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-37.64-generic 3.13.11.7
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Oct 11 13:02:58 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-02 (8 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted]
mtime.conffile..etc.chromium.browser.default: 2014-10-03T10:31:27.498350

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Carlo Cavalieri D'Oro (carlodoro88)]

Hi, Can you tell us also the list of your chromium extensions which you have installed ?

It could be an extension, the cause, maybe.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Volodya,

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug in 2014 and there have been many changes in Ubuntu and Chromium since that time.

Presumably this problem was a one time occurrence and/or is no longer an issue? Can this bug report now be closed?

If we do not hear from you the bug report will close itself in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for chromium-browser (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]