I experienced no significant delay saving those two pages as .mht with
either IE6 or IE7. You would naturally expect a page with more content
and more complex content to take longer to be compiled as an .mht. Then
again, my notion of a "significant delay" may be quite different from yours.

To reduce the delay somewhat, try running as few programs in the
background as possible while saving.

May I also suggest a fruity Cabernet to help you pass the time while the
page is being saved? If it's a good vintage you may not care how long a
silly old web page takes to save. ;-)

---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

AM wrote:
> 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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