I've noticed some rather long load times on Chrome as well. /pinging Zam.com produces 150ms latency compared to 50ms on Google.com, so I don't think that's the problem. And I'm not out to bash the new layout - I've sort of gotten used to having two large areas of nothing on each side - but it happened after the change.
Google Chrome v4.1.249.1045
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