Chrome First Load

[roundyuk]

Whenever I load Chrome and it tried to navigate to my default home I am presented with an error loading page with the following URL in the address bar?
http://vodafone.broadband/no-internet-connection-intercept.lp?url=www.google.co.uk/

Only ever happens on the first load, very weird??

[Ripshod]

I think it's down to chrome on your device messing with the domain - note the lack of a TLD, '.com' or '.co.uk'

What device are you using and what plugins have you installed in chrome? Is this on broadband or 4G/5G? Does this happen with other browsers? What DNS are you using?

I use chrome on my android and my notebook, and have Google UK as my homepage on both but I've never seen this error. I do use ssl (https) and I don't use the 'www'.

[roundyuk]

Its a Windows 11 system and has the full https://www.google.co.uk set as the home page...

Doesn't happen when using the homepage button; and I can't believe it's the URL being incorrect as if I put a load of nonsense into the address bar it returns correctly page not found, not the "connection fail" type URL..

[Jayach]

Nothing wrong with the URL, it's what the router gives if you try to access the internet before the router has established the connection.

Why that should occur when you are opening Chrome I have no idea, unless you are powering on the router and device at the same time.

[roundyuk]

Nope, router is online and has been for days/weeks when I open the machine.

[Jayach]

I suspect it may be being held in Chrome's cache, try clearing cache or reloading  reinstalling Chrome.

[Ripshod]

Have you changed any settings in the router? I'm thinking you may have changed the connection from 'always on' to 'on demand'. 

[CrimsonLiar]

@Jayach is probably about 99% correct!  You probably have a WiFi adapter that sleeps in order to save a tiny tiny amount of energy, and it just doesn't fully wake up quickly enough when you open a browser!  If that's the case there will be a sleep or energy-saving setting in its drivers that you can turn off.  Unless it's some bonkers WiFi, the cost of turning it's "sleep" mode off will probably be less than £1 per year - ie it's usually greenwashing!

[Jayach]

The only problem with the slow Wi-Fi theory is that it has to have connected to the router to get that error message. (unless it's getting it from cache)