Long delay before requesting page resources - google-chrome

I've been trying to track down what is causing my website to load slowly. Chrome's network inspector shows a gap of over half a second before the page resources are requested. All resources are stored on the same domain so DNS shouldn't be an issue. There are no scripts embedded in the page.
Note: The blocked resource is a tracking script being stopped by an ad blocking extension. With the ad blocker disabled or the tracking script removed I still have the same issue.
Refreshing the page after the initial load or navigating to other pages on the site - even with the cache disabled often doesn't show the same delay.

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However, Google Chrome shows that little "loading" animation in the tab, and there's the "Waiting for (IP)..." bubble in bottom left of the page.
Everything is loaded, as confirmed by developer tools.
Sometimes, I get this in Console, but not always:
Failed to load resource: net::ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED
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Used application cache and all the resources are added in .appcache file.
I have also added meta tag suggested by apple.
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
When I add it to home screen, it is added & opening in full screen mode.
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The Browser is a different app to the one which runs home screen web app.
I got caught the same way with my offline web app, to debug you change the settings in safari but the actual cache is different, the executable running the home screen app is different, it has several safari functions missing - google uiwebview and wkwebview
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Google Chrome intermittent load issue: possible to Programatically disable "Predict network actions..."?

I'm having a very strange problem with a site in Google Chrome:
When I click on a link (from a list view to a detail page), the page hangs and I Chrome throws up a dialogue asking me to kill the page. The page is never displayed.
But if I navigate directly to the page, it loads in Chrome without any problems. Both actions (clicking on a link or navigating to the page) work fine in Safari and Firefox.
Disabling "Predict network actions to improve page load performance" in Chrome's settings seems to fix the problem, but this is not a viable solution as I don't have any control of my user's browser settings.
Some more detail about the situation:
The link is just a regular <href>. I'm not doing any javascript
click() handling or anything else. I'm not using any 'prefetch' or 'prerender' <link> elements.
The pages all validate using the W3
html5 validator.
The page I'm navigating to loads a lot of JS, uses Knockout.js for rendering and loads a video file over HTTP.
On the occasions that the page does load (after a very long wait),
Chrome appears to have rendered the entire page in the background and
loaded all external resources. If I navigate directly to the page it
doesn't preload anything though (I'm using knockout to show a 'please
wait' message while the external resources load).
When I log the network requests using Charles, it appears that
Chrome loads the HTML for the page instantly, but the requests for
the external resources seem to take forever.
If I look at the CPU usage in Activity Monitor, 'Google Chrome Renderer' uses 100% CPU when loading from the href, but only 30% when loading directly from the page.
I'm using the latest version of Chrome (22.0.1229.94)
So - my question
Is there a way to programatically disable "Predict network actions to improve page load performance"?
Or is there some other solution to this problem?
Just going through high voted unanswered questions I came across this one, and I once got into a similar situation for entirely different reasons (chrome was preloading a huge file I couldn't afford to load for every user). The fairly simple solution I applied back then was to open the link through Javascript rather than a simple href which worked wonders. Either way, your problem might already be solved, but seeing the number of views I thought I could at least share this small insight.

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Google Chrome will precache DNS entries on the page but it doesn't pro-actively go and fetch pages, Firefox however, does prefetch pages.
Actually, there is a case where Chrome will proactively pre-cache any page that is mentioned in the cache manifest. This is designed for offline scenarios. However, each page when downloaded will not be executed against any injected script, nor will it run any JS on those pages.