Improve Internet Eplorer 8 Speed
It takes some time for Internet Explorer 8 to open new tabs on my computer system even if the tab is a blank tab in the beginning. Observant users will notice the "Connecting" message in the tab when this is happening. This is really frustrating and one of the main reasons why Internet Explorer 8 is only used sporadically. Internet Explorer 8 does however provide information in its interface that make it possible to find out why the tabs are loading that slowly. These information can be looked at in the Tools > Manage Add-ons menu in Internet Explorer.
Microsoft not only lists the installed toolbars, plugins and add-ons but also their loading time. This loading time is added on top of the normal tab loading time in Internet Explorer. It is now easy with the tools at hand to analyze the toolbars and plugins that increase the tab and window loading time in Internet Explorer the most and find ways to deal with the situation.
A right-click on any toolbar or plugin in the add-on's menu provides the option to disable it right away. Internet Explorer 8 will automatically search for related add-ons giving the user the choice to disable them as well. The loading time of some plugins and toolbars is not displayed in the manager. Disabling these can also have a positive effect on the tab and window loading times in Internet Explorer.
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This is a great idea. It is well known that may extensions will slow down the performance of any software, and this is a responsible step on behalf of Microsoft to include such a tool in IE. I even went and requested such a tool for inclusion in Firefox:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505104
If you would like to see this tool in Firefox as well, then please comment on that bug.
By the way, Martin, is there any chance of putting the “Notify me of followup comments” checkbox above the “Submit Comment” button. It is frustrating for keyboard users to tab down to the checkbox then tab back up to the submit button.
Thanks.
Dotan sure, better this way?
Put the “notify me” in the right TAB-order, just after the comment text field and before “submit comment” button and it would really make sense.
I have had the same problem with IE8 and I am not sure it is due to an add-on (i have not added any customized add-on’s to IE8.
If you do a Google search on:
IE8 connecting
You will see that there are many, many people with the same problem.
Someone said this would fix the problem:
Run a Command Prompt as Administrator and type
regsvr32 actxprxy.dll
But it didn’t help me.
Instead of manually disabling Add-ons in IE 8 you can also run IE 8 in “No Add-ons” mode by going to the Start Menu then All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Internet Explorer (No Add-ons). Also check out this post on the IE 8 blog about speeding up the opening of new tabs – http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/07/18/how-to-make-ie-open-new-tabs-faster.aspx
– Jake
MSFT Internet Explorer Outreach Team
> Dotan sure, better this way?
Well, the tab button still passes over it in Firefox! Try it: put the cursor in the textarea and press tab.
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