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I use Firefox as my primary browser on all my PCs, home and work.

But there are enough situations where, for specific reasons, I'll want
to or have to use IE.

It just takes way too long to bring up what I have as my default page,
which is good old about:blank. Same thing (long delay) for about:tabs
or about:blank when I open a new tab.

We're talking 2-10 seconds of seeing "connecting..." when it should
just load a blank page (or the about:tabs page) in an instant. These
are retrieved locally, not fetched from the internet.

Viruses and malware are not the problem. It happens on every computer
I'm on, and these computers are all regularly updated and swept for
malware. They're clean.

Firefox loads blank pages in an instant, and I don't see why IE can't
do the same. I've read a workaround to create a blank.htm file on my
local machine and make that the home page. But just on principle, I'd
like to see IE behave as logic would dictate it should.

don@nospam.4me wrote:
> I use Firefox as my primary browser on all my PCs, home and work.

Fine.

> But there are enough situations where, for specific reasons, I'll want
> to or have to use IE.

Fine.

> It just takes way too long to bring up what I have as my default page,
> which is good old about:blank.

I have no idea what you are talking about. I have IE7 running on XP and
my about:blank comes up instantly. Likewise on vista. I don't have any
ie8.

> Same thing (long delay) for about:tabs
> or about:blank when I open a new tab.

Something is wrong.

> We're talking 2-10 seconds of seeing "connecting..." when it should
> just load a blank page (or the about:tabs page) in an instant. These
> are retrieved locally, not fetched from the internet.

Exactly.

> Viruses and malware are not the problem. It happens on every computer
> I'm on,

That's remarkable; how many is every computer? Every computer I use
which includes 5 configured with XP & IE7 (along with linux distros on
other partitions), the about:blank snaps in an instant. Actually faster
than FF 2 or 3 or Opera or Chrome loading.

> and these computers are all regularly updated and swept for
> malware. They're clean.
>
> Firefox loads blank pages in an instant, and I don't see why IE can't
> do the same.

It can and does.

> I've read a workaround to create a blank.htm file on my
> local machine and make that the home page.

You don't need to do that.

> But just on principle, I'd
> like to see IE behave as logic would dictate it should.



--
Mike Easter

On Thu, 21 May 2009 16:23:35 +0100, "Brian Cryer" <not.here@localhost>
wrote:

>I have encountered IE being slow when it was searching for proxy settings.
>Try Tools > Internet Connections, Connections > LAN Settings, and if its
>checked then clear "Automatically detect settings".

Thanks. Yes, the automatically detect was unchecked as I had IE
configured.

On Thu, 21 May 2009 08:04:25 -0700, "Mike Easter" <>
wrote:

>don@nospam.4me wrote:
>> I use Firefox as my primary browser on all my PCs, home and work.
>
>Fine.
>
>> But there are enough situations where, for specific reasons, I'll want
>> to or have to use IE.
>
>Fine.
>
>> It just takes way too long to bring up what I have as my default page,
>> which is good old about:blank.
>
>I have no idea what you are talking about. I have IE7 running on XP and
>my about:blank comes up instantly. Likewise on vista. I don't have any
>ie8.
>
>> Same thing (long delay) for about:tabs
>> or about:blank when I open a new tab.
>
>Something is wrong.
>
>> We're talking 2-10 seconds of seeing "connecting..." when it should
>> just load a blank page (or the about:tabs page) in an instant. These
>> are retrieved locally, not fetched from the internet.
>
>Exactly.
>
>> Viruses and malware are not the problem. It happens on every computer
>> I'm on,
>
>That's remarkable; how many is every computer? Every computer I use
>which includes 5 configured with XP & IE7 (along with linux distros on
>other partitions), the about:blank snaps in an instant. Actually faster
>than FF 2 or 3 or Opera or Chrome loading.
>
>> and these computers are all regularly updated and swept for
>> malware. They're clean.
>>
>> Firefox loads blank pages in an instant, and I don't see why IE can't
>> do the same.
>
>It can and does.
>
>> I've read a workaround to create a blank.htm file on my
>> local machine and make that the home page.
>
>You don't need to do that.
>
>> But just on principle, I'd
>> like to see IE behave as logic would dictate it should.

Many questions from you here, which I'll try to handle.

First, just to clarify: I brought up IE8, and the first blank tab took
about six seconds to appear. It said "connecting..." while (I'm
guessing) attempting to connect to about:blank. I opened a new tab
and that about:blank took six seconds or so to appear. Subsequent
blank tabs opened right up instantly, as I'd have expected.

This is on a 3.2 GHz machine, XP, 1 gig of memory, and not a lot else
going on (running) concurrently.

The other computers this happens on, all XP, all running IE 8:

- 2 GHz, 1 gig memory (work computer)
- 1.4GHz, 512 meg memory (daughter's laptop)
- 2.4GHz, 1 gig memory (computer my other two kids share)

It also used to happen with IE 7.

The microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general group has other old
posts from other people having this problem, but I've not seen a
solution that worked.

I tried doing regsvr32 actxprxy.dll from a command prompt, and that
didn't help.

Just tried IE again, and yes, for whatever odd reason, the first two
about:blank tabs take a long time to come up, then subsequent ones
load fast.

Weird.

"Brian Cryer" <not.here@localhost> schreef in bericht
news:Ya-dnaLqk-...
> <don@nospam.4me> wrote in message
> news:...
>> On Thu, 21 May 2009 16:23:35 +0100, "Brian Cryer" <not.here@localhost>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>I have encountered IE being slow when it was searching for proxy
>>>settings.
>>>Try Tools > Internet Connections, Connections > LAN Settings, and if its
>>>checked then clear "Automatically detect settings".
>>
>> Thanks. Yes, the automatically detect was unchecked as I had IE
>> configured.
>
> Can't think of anything else it might be.
>
> When you get it sorted (as I hope you will) please post the answer back
> for the benefit of others.
> --
> Brian Cryer
> www.cryer.co.uk/brian
>
I had the same problem with IE7 in XP SP3 1GB. I changed about.blank to
google and then back to about.blan. It is now a lot better. ??
--
Jan B

<don@nospam.4me> wrote in message
news:...
>I use Firefox as my primary browser on all my PCs, home and work.
>
> But there are enough situations where, for specific reasons, I'll want
> to or have to use IE.
>
> It just takes way too long to bring up what I have as my default page,
> which is good old about:blank. Same thing (long delay) for about:tabs
> or about:blank when I open a new tab.
>
> We're talking 2-10 seconds of seeing "connecting..." when it should
> just load a blank page (or the about:tabs page) in an instant. These
> are retrieved locally, not fetched from the internet.
>
> Viruses and malware are not the problem. It happens on every computer
> I'm on, and these computers are all regularly updated and swept for
> malware. They're clean.
>
> Firefox loads blank pages in an instant, and I don't see why IE can't
> do the same. I've read a workaround to create a blank.htm file on my
> local machine and make that the home page. But just on principle, I'd
> like to see IE behave as logic would dictate it should.

You just answered your own question --- It's Internet Explorer.

don wrote:

> It just takes way too long to bring up what I have as my default page,
> which is good old about:blank. Same thing (long delay) for about:tabs
> or about:blank when I open a new tab.
>
> We're talking 2-10 seconds of seeing "connecting..." when it should
> just load a blank page (or the about:tabs page) in an instant. These
> are retrieved locally, not fetched from the internet.

Look before posting. microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general already
has lots of posts on this topic. One possible solution is:

Remove all sites from the Restricted Sites security zone. Thousands
of entries (added by anti-malware programs) in this list will
severely slow IE8. Known bug. Manual removal is tedious. Save
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/DelDomains.inf to a file, right-
click on it, and select Install. This will make registry changes to
delete the ZoneMap entries and recreate them (but empty). ALL sites
in every security zone are deleted. If you have entries in the
Trusted Sites zone, record them before deletion.

don@nospam.4me wrote:
> I use Firefox as my primary browser on all my PCs, home and work.
>
> But there are enough situations where, for specific reasons, I'll want
> to or have to use IE.
>
> It just takes way too long to bring up what I have as my default page,
> which is good old about:blank. Same thing (long delay) for about:tabs
> or about:blank when I open a new tab.

Have you thought about using the IE Tab extension in Firefox?

--
Jordon

"Jordon" <> wrote in message
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>
> Have you thought about using the IE Tab extension in Firefox?
>
> Jordon

So what? Firefox can suck too?

Stacey Chuffo wrote:
> "Jordon" wrote in message
> news:gv49mu$t16$-
>> Have you thought about using the IE Tab extension in Firefox?
>>
>> Jordon
>
> So what? Firefox can suck too?

I just don't know if I can handle the over abundance of
wit and charm that you contribute to the group.

--
Jordon