I was able to reproduce the loading issue with beta 17.4.2294.
Instead of turning off the Web Shield, turn off the Behavior Shield (From the user interface -> Settings -> Components, next to "Behavior Shield" click on the green area left of the checkmark).
Instead of turning off the behavior shield, you can "customize" and add
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/* as an exclusion to the behavior shield. (In my simple testing, this works on both the initial 100 bugs listed and on the next 100 bugs listed.)
Please post whether or not the above works for you. Thank you.