On 27 Mar 2009 at 14:17, Murray Freeman wrote: > I reviewed Firefox 3, and have been impressed when compared to IE7, so > when IE8 became available in final release, I installed it. Initially, > I was very impressed by how quick it opened, but in the last couple of > weeks, it's ridiculouly slow. In fact, it not only takes forever, but > it's near impossible to shut it down. When I go into task manager, I > find 2 IEexplore processes, yet under IE7 there was only one IEexplore > process. So, I terminate one of the IE processes and both close, yet my > machine then locks up and sometimes I have to reboot. Anybody have any > ideas as to what is going on here? I'm testing both IE8 and Firefox > with the idea of seklecting one for our office. Initially IE8 was > opening faster than Firefox, but now Firefox is opening faster. I'm > concerned that perhaps it's something on my machine, so I do not want > to make a decision until I have all the facts.
Ed Bott has reported on a possible fix. IE8 slow? Maybe this tweak will help | Ed Bott’s Windows Expertise | http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=2443 HTH Angus -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-895-3270 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
