I'm pretty sure this was the one that got me riled up to start this thread.
It basically froze when I tried saving it as a single page.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/graw2/review.html

But when I re-tried it, it didnt seem as bad. Another one:
http://www.informationweek.com/

The behaviour is inconsistent, but seems to affect mostly pages with heavy
content.

Thanks,
AM

"Leonard Grey" wrote:

> Funny, I've never had that experience. You don't suppose it might be a
> server side issue? How about posting a link that allegedly has that problem.
>
> ---
> Leonard Grey
> Errare humanum est
>
> AM wrote:
> > This is not a bug, seems a poor design issue to me. When I wish to save a web
> > page, the "archive, single file" option (default) may take a long time for it
> > save the page. In the meantime, you CANNOT use the other tabs that are open!
> > You have to wait until the web page is saved! You can open another IE
> > instance and continue browsing for other things but still this is a waste of
> > time if you're in a rush and are locked out of the open tabs you wish to
> > access or work on.
> >
> > Saving a web page in html form is usually quick, but you lose out on the
> > images and hyperlinks. So you have to use the single page option which is
> > *sometimes* relatively quick (a few seconds) other times it can take a long
> > time (over a minute) or even freeze indefinitely. This flaw was carried on
> > from IE6 and IE5 and no one thought it worthy enough to do anything about.
> > Pls dont leave it unfixed in IE8.
> >
> > Thank you.
> > AM
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