A couple of days ago I posted a question about new tabs opening very slowly,
either by selecting a new tab near the top of the page, or by ctrl-click on a
hyperlink. It was taking upwards of 15 seconds for new tabs to load! My
query didn't draw any responses, and I was getting so exasperated that I was
ready to download and use a different browser. A search finally yielded a
suggestion to disable Java Plug-In SSV Helper add-on. I followed that
suggestion and my problem resolved completely. Just an FYI to anyone else
who may be experiencing this problem.
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Bill Cowan

"billtc" <billtc@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> A couple of days ago I posted a question about new tabs opening very
> slowly,
> either by selecting a new tab near the top of the page, or by ctrl-click
> on a
> hyperlink. It was taking upwards of 15 seconds for new tabs to load! My
> query didn't draw any responses,

PA Bear posted a response less than an hour after you posted your query.

> and I was getting so exasperated that I was
> ready to download and use a different browser. A search finally yielded a
> suggestion to disable Java Plug-In SSV Helper add-on. I followed that
> suggestion and my problem resolved completely. Just an FYI to anyone else
> who may be experiencing this problem.

Good to hear that cured it.

I'd also have suggested making sure you don't have a loads of sites in your
Restricted Sites zone, some "security" applications put hundreds in there in
order to block access to known malicious sites but in doing so causes IE8 to
load slowly.

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Dan