Unexpected "waiting for localhost"?

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Published on 2014-08-19T06:23:43Z Indexed on 2014/08/19 16:23 UTC
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So I ran into something that kind of worried me today. Lately my computer has been kind of slow and I'm dealing with that, but today when I opened Facebook in Google Chrome, I noticed a message in the bottom left corner while it was loading the site that said "Waiting for localhost". It was brief and I managed to notice it because my computer is slower than it used to & it caused Chrome to hang briefly, long enough for me to read it.

As I'm quite confident in that Facebook isn't running on my localhost, I'm wondering what could potentially make Chrome wait for localhost while I'm loading webpages from external servers. Is there a malware of some kind that I should be worrying about?

Unfortunately I have no other information than this to go on, and I have no idea how to further investigate this, if it generated any logs or whatever.

I'd appreciate any help in figuring out this matter!

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