Chrome - intermittent freezing while firewall is active

[Phakt 0]

I have noticed that Chrome freezes for 2-5 seconds every 1-3 minutes when the firewall is active. (no freezing when disabled). Also, while in games I have intermittent freezing but not as often. Remedy? 

[Marcos 5,070]

Are you able to reproduce it with Edge, IE or Firefox? Does it happen even if you have 1 tab open in Chrome? I'd suggest using Procmon to capture the operations that occurred during a freezing period: https://support.eset.com/kb6308

Does merely pausing the firewall from gui make a difference or it must be disabled completely in the advanced setup for the issue to not occur?

At any rate, I'd recommend contacting your local customer care so that the case is tracked properly.

[Phakt 0]

All other browsers work fine. Removed all extensions in chrome, reinstalled chrome. one tab or multiple. Still happens..  Paused protection and it stops. 

[Phakt 0]

I am going to delete all my firewall rules (so many) and start over. See what that does. 

[Phakt 0]

That did it. Eset firewall. Thanks anyway for your help.