I cannot find anyone else who is affected by this bug, so I am reluctant to believe it is actually a bug with google chrome.

To better understand what I am dealing with here I have created a short video of what is happening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMHBj_K8upY

It appears Javascript is not executed while the developer tools are open however I cannot be certain that is the only issue.

I have un-installed google chrome and chromium and removed their associated folders in the ~/.cache directory. Then re-installed chrome using sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable however the problem persists.

Any help tracking down why this is happening and how I might circumvent it would be greatly appreciated!