Chromium based browsers connection issue

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I’m experiencing an issue with all Chromium-based browsers. I’ve tried chrome/ium and edge, FIrefox seems ok.
When trying to connect to certain websites, especially those from Google search results, the connection drops. If I wait, an error screen appears and then refreshes automatically, loading the page correctly. Alternatively, a manual reload also resolves the issue.
I’ve checked the system logs and found nothing suspicious, except for this message: Nov 05 08:11:46 fedora chromium-browser[196052]: Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null).

Firefox, however, appears to be working fine. I’ve also tried to change DNS but no improvements.
I’m on Fedora Kinoite (atomic KDE) 40

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I would suspect a network or dns issue.

If you use firefox do you see the same problem?
That would help eliminate chromium as the problem.
I would expect you to see the same error if it’s a network issue.

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No, as per the original post Firefox is ok

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If you are running the browsers in a container that might explain the fontconfig issue.

Your image has duplicate src=googlekey=value query attributes – URL Spec URL Units is very dense, but should define how duplicate keys are handled. In the past the behaviour differed across browsers. There may be more important elements that the image doesn’t show. I would capture the URL as text, start with the base URL and then add query elements one by one until you find what breaks other browsers.

The interesting logs are probably on the remote server.

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Thanks but actually I’ve installed them via rpm-ostree as I’m on atomic

Kind regards

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Added atomic-desktops

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@vgaetera they are already 3 different profiles with 3 different browsers, so I don’t think a 4th would make any difference.

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i might have similar issues i have been actually debuging my VPN keeps “dropping”, but VPN is still connected, but internet is disabled and started to test this more and everything works fine until i open Chrome and then i keep loosing network connection even VPN says and shows connection is still enabled, network manager shows connection is enabled, but actually it is not NetworkManager restart usually helps or restart laptop, but each time i have chrome open i keep loosing network connection other laptop has firefox with VPN no issues.

tested on 4 laptops 4 phones and only 2 laptops with chrome installed is affected all on same network one Windows machine with chrome and Fedora 41 with chrome windows machine recovers it self 1-5 minutes Fedora i need to restart NetworkManager. Phones not affecting no issues

chrome version Version 130.0.6723.91 (Official Build) (64-bit)

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Added chromium, google-chrome, microsoft-edge, networkmanager

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I highly doubt this is specific to atomic desktops, but will leave that tag there for now.

I hope you find the issue!

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I’ve seen this frequently on a Windows laptop with Edge (Chrome), and also couldn’t resolve it with changing DNS (10 and 11; 11 with encrypted even).

I only noticed this when working on that computer earlier this year, haven’t heard reports about it happening since, and haven’t noticed anything with about 5 minutes of Edge use a week ago; basically I’m not sure why it happened, what triggered it, or if it was fixed, but at the very least this behavior might be Chromium-specific and not Fedora/Linux. I mainly use Firefox and haven’t seen anything like that happen.

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@Espionage724 interesting, maybe it something related to preload, I will do some testing with the option turned off

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I wonder if chromium is implementing its own dns lookup logic?
Maybe check what is in the settings?

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@barryascott ok will try different dns setting, however this time seems I got something in the logs

Nov 07 21:44:37 fedora chromium-browser[128906]: [128959:129029:1107/214437.902030:ERROR:ssl_client_socket_impl.cc(878)] handshake failed; returned -1, SSL error code 1, net_error -202
Nov 07 21:44:50 fedora chromium-browser[128906]: [128959:129029:1107/214450.938999:ERROR:ssl_client_socket_impl.cc(878)] handshake failed; returned -1, SSL error code 1, net_error -202
Nov 07 21:45:14 fedora chromium-browser[128906]: [128898:128935:1107/214514.297652:ERROR:registration_request.cc(291)] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
Nov 07 21:45:20 fedora chromium-browser[128906]: Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null)
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Had same issue with Edge on Windows, so definitively not a Fedora issue.