Hi all, I work for a company that produces a rich Flex application. We are getting reports from one of our customers, however, that if they have our app loaded in their browser (IE7 or Firefox but not IE6), opening a spreadsheet in Excel takes on the order of 15 seconds. As soon as they close their browser, opening that same spreadsheet takes a negligible amount of time.
CPU usage by the browser on the client machine never goes above 30% and there seems to be enough free memory to open Excel without issue. Does anyone know of any correlation between bad Excel performance and having a Flash app running in a particular set of browsers? Regards with confusion, Ash

