At a glance, there are www09.clicktale.net/wr, http://chat.gamespot.com/socket.io/1//{often, but not always, a string of numbers/letters here}/?disconnect=1 and http://chat2.gamespot.com/socket.io/1/?t={long number, possibly varies} scripts that stand out a little around link clicking/page load times
The chat.gamespot.com/socket.io/1///?disconnect one seems to the main one causing the freeze up prior to the page seemingly loading. The clicktale ones are fairly responsive and tend to appear all over the place, usually with no visible effect on performance - most likely just light tracking scripts. The chat2.gamespot.com/socket.io/1/?t= addresses occur a bit after page load, and while the response times are poor they don't appear to be having a particularly noticeable visible effect on the page load times at a glance, likely because other things are being loaded alongside them.
@DigitalDame, @LarkAnderson: chat.gamespot.com/socket.io/1//{often a string here, but not always}/?disconnect addresses on port 9229 appear to be the main cause of this, it's running whenever a choice to move away from a page is made, and delays the leaving of the page, whether that's closing the tab or clicking on a new link. Can't say for sure that particular address is a direct link, nor the only link, to the problem, but it's definitely part of it.
Edit: this appears to be occurring for all browsers, though the delay times vary - most likely depending on how quickly the server responds (or if it responds at all, in some cases).
Edit2: I forgot to mention that because it's the previous page running the script delaying the load of the next, the delay can be sort-of circumvented by opening each new page in a new tab and then closing the current one - this will immediately open the new one, and the previous one will close itself after a while, rather than delaying the opening of the new page.
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