I am having the same issue with Chrome (both current stable [24] and canary [26]) hanging for 60seconds on new tab or new browser window. Initial load is fine. Found out that I can trigger the hangs to start by locking my screen (winkey + L) and then unlocking. See this issue for more details.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/is...tail?id=172332
I also have the DisplayLink usb DVI adapter from monoprice (
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?p_id=6038) running the latest Display Link drivers (core: 7.1.44152.0 graphics: 7.1.44323.0)
So far I have had good luck running chrome with the command line args --disable-gpu
Possible its trying to run GPU acceleration on the displaylink adapter and it times out and has to revert to software rendering?