= Chromium sometimes freezes due to autofill on omnibox
This has happened a few times a day on <Ubuntu 24.10> and <Chromium> 133. It has also been happening in previous versions of Ubuntu and Chromium.
As <Ciro Santilli> starts typing on the omnibox, sometimes the window freezes and the dreaded "is not responding" window shows up.
The only somewhat similar reports that <Ciro Santilli> could find as of 2025:
* https://askubuntu.com/questions/474270/typing-freezes-in-chromium-omnibox-and-enigmatic-letter-a-in-bar-since-ubuntu
* https://superuser.com/questions/454737/debugging-freeze-in-chromium
* https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/51905/typing-in-chromiums-chromes-omnibox-crashes-browser
Opened one at: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1544448/chome-chromium-ui-sometimes-freezes-for-several-seconds-when-i-start-typing-on-t
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