[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#848521: chromium: intolerable unreliable browser behaviour when operating in china (6-20k/sec over VPN)

[lkcl]

Package: chromium
Version: 53.0.2785.143-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

full report upstream:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=675411

hilariously, when submitting that bugreport:

* a "cannot connect" please RELOAD error occurred (twice)
* dodgy use of the "back" button recovered the HTTP POST
* seeing my *own* bugreport took five minutes and four reloads

this is kinda hilarious to experience, it's a bit of an eyeopener.
it's not just chromium, it's pretty much every network application.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.7.8lkcl (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  libasound2           1.1.2-1
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.18.0-1
ii  libavcodec57         10:3.2-dmo1
ii  libavformat57        10:3.2-dmo1
ii  libavutil55          10:3.2-dmo1
ii  libc6                2.23-4
ii  libcairo2            1.14.6-1
ii  libcups2             1.7.5-10
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.10.14-1.0nosystemd1
ii  libexpat1            2.2.0-1
ii  libfontconfig1       2.11.0-6.1
ii  libfreetype6         2.5.2-2
ii  libgcc1              1:6.2.1-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.36.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.50.1-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0    3.4.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0           3.22.1-1
ii  libharfbuzz0b        1.2.7-1+b1
ii  libjpeg62-turbo      1:1.4.1-2
ii  libnettle6           3.2-1
ii  libnspr4             2:4.12-2
ii  libnss3              2:3.26-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.38.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.38.1-1
ii  libpci3              1:3.3.1-1
ii  libpulse0            9.0-5.0nosystemd1
ii  libspeechd2          0.8-6
ii  libstdc++6           6.2.1-5
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.4-2
ii  libxcomposite1       1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxcursor1          1:1.1.14-1+b1
ii  libxdamage1          1:1.1.4-2+b1
ii  libxext6             2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxfixes3           1:5.0.3-1
ii  libxi6               2:1.7.4-1+b2
ii  libxml2              2.9.1+dfsg1-4
ii  libxrandr2           2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.8-1+b1
ii  libxslt1.1           1.1.28-2
ii  libxss1              1:1.2.2-1
ii  libxtst6             2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  x11-utils            7.7+3
ii  xdg-utils            1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7

Versions of packages chromium recommends:
ii  fonts-liberation  1.07.3-3

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-l10n  <none>

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