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[Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
to be a "regular" (non-security) bug.  I have unmarked it as a security
issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy.
Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

** Information type changed from Private Security to Public

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1380042

Title:
  Chromium refreshes the pages upon network connect with no way to stop
  it

Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  FOR SECURITY IMPLICATION SEE &&&

  My (and many people's that i know) workflow:

  1. Open the page that you intend to read/process/comment on/etc in a new tab
  2. Leave the tab open until the desired action is done (this results in many open tabs, some of which are youtube videos and such).
  3. Before the reboot do not close the browser, but allow it to be shut down due to computer shutdown.
  4. After the reboot, but before connecting the network open the browser and tell it to reopen the tabs.
  5. Connect to the network and refresh the tabs that are needed for work.

  What happens:

  After upgrading from 13.10 to 14.04 all the tabs refresh themselves without being told to as soon as i connect to the network.
  There seems to be no way to stop this behaviour.
  I end up racing with "Ctrl+Tab - Esc - Ctrl+Tab - Esc" combination through my tabs to end the reload process.
  A lot of unneeded at this time tabs take up computer resources due to flash and other multimedia content.

  At one time my computer woke me at three in the morning, because my
  internet was down in the evening and just came on at night, so
  Chromium has restarted all the youtube videos for me.

  &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

  In addition to that there is a security issue that i have no time to
  load VPN before such loading begins. This makes the traffic that is
  assumed to be secure to begin through an unsecure channel.

  &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

  What i expect to happen:

  No browser should load anything unless it is asked by the user to do so, and not any earlier.
  Chromium should load the pages in three cases: 1) When the tab is opened. 2) When the reload is pressed. 3) Then javascript causes page reload, but only after the page was already loaded and JS began to run

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: chromium-browser 37.0.2062.120-0ubuntu0.14.04.1~pkg1049
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-37.64-generic 3.13.11.7
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sat Oct 11 13:02:58 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-02 (8 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
  SourcePackage: chromium-browser
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted]
  mtime.conffile..etc.chromium.browser.default: 2014-10-03T10:31:27.498350

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