Browser requests stopping in weird places

Browser requests stopping in weird places

When I make web requests in any browser to a page that might have a lot of JavaScript references it seems like it'll get through them all or the last one and stop processing the page. I have to go to the address bar and hit enter again to load the page. This doesn't consistently happen. It seems like it goes through all JS files and stop at the last one and if I let it go it'll eventually (after a couple of minutes) stop trying and just stop.

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"I get similar hang-ups that mostly appear to be due to third-party-site requests.

Eg, when I load a page from superuser.com, the browser also requests files from sstatic.net, ajax.googleapis.com, www.gravatar.com, www.google-analytics.com and edge.quantserve.com. Sometimes the browser ""hangs"" trying to access google-analytics.com, and the page won't finish loading until it times out, or I force a reload.

A temporary routing problem between me and any of those other servers can look like a browser hang. Reloading the page forces the browser to reconnect to all those sites, so whatever the issue was may go away on reconnection.

Root cause could certainly be MTU-related, as Ludwig suggests, but I don't think that's the only trouble that would cause the symptom."