New Tab page is blank for two--five seconds

[da2x]

Description

The performance on the New Tab page is really bad. It takes two to five clock seconds from I open a tab until the background and content displays.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Press Ctrl+T

Actual result:

The page remains white for several seconds.

Expected result:

The background image, counters, clock, and top sites should display immediately.

Reproduces how often:

Every time.

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave | 0.58.21 Chromium: 71.0.3578.98 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision | 15234034d19b85dcd9a03b164ae89d04145d8368-refs/branch-heads/3578@{#897}
OS | Windows

I've got the same issue on macOS and Linux too

Website problems only:

N/A

Additional Information

This also happens with a completely empty profile.

Other web browsers, including Chrome; Firefox; and Opera, have solved this by keeping an instance of their new tabs loaded at all time. Opening a new tab either switches in the pre-loaded instances or makes a copy of it.

[srirambv]

@btlechowski @GeetaSarvadnya could you try reproducing this? I cant reproduce it on Linux. Could be Windows specific. @da2x This is on Windows 7/10?

[da2x]

I’m seeing this on recent powerful hardware on macOS 10.14.2, Windows 10.17763.55, and on Fedora Linux 29.

[srirambv]

This is what I see on a i7 Processor machine running Dev/Beta/Release profiles and Slack(memory hogger) simultaneous on Ubuntu with 16GB RAM
https://youtu.be/7njF6IT_IU8

Yes the first tab that opens has an awkward white blank for a second but subsequent new tabs don't show any blank page image loading is quite instant.

cc: @bbondy

[da2x]

The white flashes you see on that video last two to five seconds on all of my computers every time I open a tab. Recent hardware, two laptops with Intel graphics and 16 GiB RAM and one desktop AMD graphics and 32 GiB of RAM. This doesn’t happen in Vivaldi or Chrome.

[btlechowski]

I was able o reproduce the issue. For brief moment the new tab page is white.

Reproduced on

Brave	0.58.21 Chromium: 71.0.3578.98 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	15234034d19b85dcd9a03b164ae89d04145d8368-refs/branch-heads/3578@{#897}
OS	Windows 7

[rebron]

Closing. Dupe of #3362