Steps to reproduce the problem:
This happens RANDOMLY, it is not systematically reproducible, but I've started to see this a lot recently.
I wonder if it has anything to do with  issue 654203 

It SOMETIMES happens that:

1. I click on a link from another application (e.g. Gmail) 
2. Chrome opens, the tab goes blank, the progress bar appears below the address bar at a small non-zero percentage, and it stays so FOREVER
3. Then I unfold the menu and try to tap the "x" that is supposed to abort loading the page, so that I then can reload it. But it doesn't work
4. So I try tapping the address bar (as if I were to type a new url but I don't and leave the current one) and hit the "=>" virtual key (i.e. submit)

What is the expected behavior?
At step 2, it should never, ever happen that the loading gets stuck at a certain point forever in the first place. If there is a network issue or the download actually does get stuck in any way and cannot be resumed, after a certain timeout an error should be displayed.

But much more importantly, step 3 should IMMEDIATELY abort and stop the download, and the "x" button in the menu should leave its place to the reload button so you should be able to retry loading the page.

Also, step 4 should work too, immediately aborting the current request and initiating a new one

What went wrong?
As I said, it is already wrong that at step 2 the loading process gets stuck forever at a given point, and it does.

But the much more relevant part is:
- step 3 does nothing. No matter how many times I try tapping the "x" button in the menu, Chrome will appear to be still waiting for the download to complete (the "x" button remains and isn't replaced by the refresh button, the progress bar remains where it is and neither restarts nor grows, the page remains blank)
- the exact same (i.e. nothing at all) happens at step 4.

I can retry dozen of times and will never succeed.
However, if I use the Back button to go back to the application that had called chrome, and click on the link again, most of the times it will load the page as expected.

Actually, I wonder whether any request is started at all in the first place, or if the progress bar just shows up at its "minimum non-zero" position by default while absolutely nothing is happening and no download is ever started at all.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 53.0.2785.124  Channel: stable
OS Version: Android 5.x
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