Page doesn't load until connect to VM

[Jon_G]

I found the solution to my own problem. Hope this helps others.

in Chrome go to chrome://flags and go to ‘Calculate window occlusion on Windows’ and Disable it from the dropdown box. Relaunch chrome, and it will work.

The issue was that with this setting enabled, sometimes Chrome is waiting for the window to be manually ‘focused’ before loading the full page contents. This was causing issues with UiPath for this URL I was trying to navigate as a background process. Hope this helps others and may apply to other URLs!

More info - Background tabs and pages not loading until focused on - Google Chrome Community