David Baxter PhD
Late Founder
How to make IE open new tabs faster
IE Blog
July 19, 2009
Browser add-ons are a great way to enhance the experience and capabilities of your Web browser. Add-ons are loaded by IE when you open a new browser window or tab. This is usually a quick process, but certain add-ons may cause IE to take a longer time than expected. For example, after installing Skype 4.1*, this user (and his father) encountered a slowdown in IE on their computers. Just like most of you, almost everybody on the IE team is tech support for their parents, so improving the user's ability to fix problems themselves is a topic that is near and dear to our heart. (Hi Dad!)
The delay caused by add-ons is usually the reason you see an IE tab with ?Connecting?? at the top, and as a result, the web page (even if it is about:blank) takes a few seconds to load. You can fix this type of issue by doing the following:
Examine the performance impact of your add-ons using the Manage Add-ons dialog. Click on Tools - Manage Add-ons, and look at the Load time column. Some users have already discovered this.
IE Blog
July 19, 2009
Browser add-ons are a great way to enhance the experience and capabilities of your Web browser. Add-ons are loaded by IE when you open a new browser window or tab. This is usually a quick process, but certain add-ons may cause IE to take a longer time than expected. For example, after installing Skype 4.1*, this user (and his father) encountered a slowdown in IE on their computers. Just like most of you, almost everybody on the IE team is tech support for their parents, so improving the user's ability to fix problems themselves is a topic that is near and dear to our heart. (Hi Dad!)
The delay caused by add-ons is usually the reason you see an IE tab with ?Connecting?? at the top, and as a result, the web page (even if it is about:blank) takes a few seconds to load. You can fix this type of issue by doing the following:
Examine the performance impact of your add-ons using the Manage Add-ons dialog. Click on Tools - Manage Add-ons, and look at the Load time column. Some users have already discovered this.
