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[Willem Mali <willem.mali@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can confirm this, I have been experiencing this bug for about half a
year. I run Lubuntu 14.04 LTS, on a cheap laptop. It happens when typing
in any new tab or window, or after just having switched tabs, frequency
seemingly depending on overall CPU usage. As my CPU often runs in the
70-100% range while browsing this is really annoying, but generally I
just enter text artificially slow. It happens mostly every single time I
type something in the address bar.

I could do some more diagnostics tomorrow, if there's anything that
could be of use I can post it.

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Title:
  Characters mixing up in address bar

Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I hope this wasn't reported already, but couldn't find any recent
  reports.

  This is a relatively new bug, I don't think it was in v34.

  I often move the cursor to the address bar using F6 and instantly
  start typing my URL / search term afterwards. F6 leads to a quite
  noticable freeze while the suggestions box (or whatever that box below
  the bar is called) loads, at least on my aging ~5 years old system.
  Same issue when opening a new tab and starting to type, the
  suggestions take a while to load so chromium freezes for some time.

  That's not a big issue, but any characters I type during the freeze
  may come up in wrong order once chromium unfreezes. Sometimes they are
  ordered correctly, but quite often some of the letters are swapped. So
  it's not just in rare circumstances, but the freeze is not that easily
  reproducible because it seems to happen only when the bar wasn't used
  for some time. When there's no (or only a very short) freeze, there's
  no bug.

  At first I thought that my typing skills have suffered a lot because I
  was googling for slightly wrong terms all the time, but then noticed
  that chromium (or something that handles input and passes it to
  chromium?) is to blame, not me. [Or maybe I really hit the keys in a
  wrong order all the time while thinking that it is correct, but that
  seems unlikely, since I usually fix those finger syncing typos
  unconsciously.]

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: chromium-browser 36.0.1985.125-0ubuntu1.14.04.0~pkg1029
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-34.60-generic 3.13.11.4
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-34-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Wed Aug 20 17:23:39 2014
  Desktop-Session:
   DESKTOP_SESSION = ubuntu
   XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/usr/share/upstart/xdg:/etc/xdg
   XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
  Env:
   MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
   LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-10 (527 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
  SourcePackage: chromium-browser
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-22 (120 days ago)
  gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager = b''/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme = b'gnome\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'Clearlooks\n'
  modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted]
  mtime.conffile..etc.chromium.browser.default: 2014-04-23T00:11:40.712095

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