How do I force Google to load new tab when opened?

[ergophobe]

Chrome seems to have recently changed its behavior.

Now, when I CTRL-click (or right click and select Open in New Tab) Chrome often doesn't load the page until I go to that tab and give it focus. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. The stupid thing is that it seems to do this specifically when it thinks the connection is slow, which is precisely when I do NOT want this to happen.

I often find myself on low-speed, high-latency connections and the entire point of opening in a new tab for me is to get the page loading while I read the current page.

I want it to simply behave like it used to and open the page in the background and have it fully loaded when I select that tab. Ideas?

[robzilla]

I've noticed video playback is now delayed until the tab is opened, but other content seems to preload just fine in Chrome 47.

[ergophobe]

I think it's more sensitive to response time. So it gives me a grey screen saying that something is wrong (e.g. connection timed out or DNS problem or some such) and then loads when it has focus.

I think perhaps it's timing out quicker and then retrying when it has focus. So maybe it's that there's some timeout setting that has changed... hmm...

[tangor]

Just curious.... is there any bit of flash involved on those sites? Chrome won't load it (at least mine) until I select the tab. Then again, slow connections can fill pretty quick ... depends on how many pipes the browser tries to set up.

[ergophobe]

No Flash. Happens with the simplest of pages sometimes.

I should start to look more closely though - I've wondered if it is a matter of pages that have ads or other dynamically loaded content.... I'll have to pay more attention.

[ergophobe]

It's especially bad today and I'm not even on a satellite connection, not even on the same machine as the one that originally prompted the first post.

I suspect the issue is probably a plugin and it must be something I have on all the machines I use

[ergophobe]

Disabled almost all extensions and did a few other things as recommended on various pages with fixes for
ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT and ERR_CONNECTION_RESET

No joy. Chrome has basically become unusable. I remember switching from FF to Chrome as my primary browser because FF had become all but unusable. Now it looks like I need to switch back... though the truth is that I prefer Chrome.

If it continues to happen in FF, then I at least know it's a browser issue, not a firewall, antivirus or network issue (though as I say, two different machines, two different OSes (Win 7 and 8.1), two different ISPs, same aggravating problem). On at least one of the networks I am able to also get on with wifi using Chrome on my phone and I never have the problem.

Chrome on the desktop remains unusable though.