Chromium 5.0.307.9 is unable to render the following URL when it is typed or copied and pasted into the address bar: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ Chromium just says "sending request" and nothing ever happens. I recall this affecting Chromium 4 on gentoo as well. Chrome 4 on Windows Vista is able to render the URL with no issues. Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.7.16 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.32.8 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.32.8-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_X3210_@_2.13GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.1.0_beta1 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -s" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -s" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--hash-style=gnu,--sort-common,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/news/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/news/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage-overlay" SYNC="rsync://jove.eng.yale.edu/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acpi alsa amd64 apache2 bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cleartype cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvb dvd dvdr dvdread encode firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gpm iconv imagemagick java6 jpeg kde kdehiddenvisibility lame ldap libnotify lzma lzo mailwrapper mbox mmap mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nptl nptlonly offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pda perl png pppd python qt3support qt4 readline reflection samba session spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode usb vim-syntax vorbis wavpack webkit xcb xcomposite xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dbd deflate dir disk_cache dri env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv radeon radeonhd vesa vga" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I can't reproduce with chromium-5.0.307.11. If you're still having trouble, please report the bug upstream with a Wireshark dump and post the URL here.