IE7: Speed & Addins

Posted By: Michael Griffiths | Oct 8th, 2007 @ 4:34 PM
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#Oct 8th, 2007 @ 4:34 PM
Michael Griffiths
Michael Griffiths
Fatalism.

I went in and disabled all the non-Microsoft and nonessential addins that load without permission. Most of them weren't currently loaded.

I had a substantial speed increase in page loading time.

Particularly with Hotmail, which went from being "meh" fast to being practically faster to bring up than Gmail.

So:

1) Is there a bloody better way to manage addins in IE than the terrible dialogue the Internet Options?
2) Why is there such a tremendous speed increase from disabling a bunch of ActiveX controls (none where BHOs)? Sure, I can speculate as to why, but it seems idiotic - IE would slow down the more websites (and stupid "addins) you installed.

#Oct 8th, 2007 @ 4:49 PM
Sven Groot
Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...
Add-ins can and most often do subscribe to browser events. Since these event handlers are all run synchronously the add-ins are in a position to slow down page loading.
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