Angular Scenario (run w Karma) mystery! … browser().navigateTo(…) never arrives

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I'm terrifically stumped here! Thanks so much for supporting this (now deprecated) library and THANKS INFINITE for any help solving this head-wall-banger.

I posted the issue here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22740818/angular-scenario-run-w-karma-mystery-browser-navigateto-never-arri but crickets so far.

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Karma begins running e2e suite OK:

...
Running "karma:e2e" (karma) task
INFO [karma]: Karma v0.10.10 server started at http://localhost:8080/_karma_/
INFO [launcher]: Starting browser Chrome
INFO [Chrome 33.0.1750 (Linux)]: Connected on socket XNRarLLpGwIi3U6mgiaw
GET / 200 345ms - 4.79kb

Now, notice that last line, the GET that goes out 200 OK is my grunt-launched express server doings its job fine.

At this point, I can see in my browser that the page has loaded successfully (Angular app IS running properly in the iframe)

describe: Front Page
  has expected sections
    browser navigate to '/'

BUT.. everything just hangs after that first navigateTo(). No errors. The test runner never recognizes that it has "arrived" at the target URL, ergo it never triggers anythings else.