IE 7 loads pages real SLOW

for some reason IE7 loads page real slow whereas firefox loads them quick, i even checked my wireless connection but its always on excellent, any solution of how to solve this?

 

use firefox or opera
i use opera
go to tools, delete browsing history, then delele all, check also files addons

 

Solution in bold.

 

lol true but he should try opera

 

haha.. n1.. its true.... not everything can be copied u see

 

Try system restore to a time when it was working fine. Use ccleaner and use it to clean up your registry too.

 

You could try going into Tools>Internet Options. Then go to the Connections tab and click on LAN Settings. Then untick the box that says "Automatically Detect Settings".

 

I'm not sure what Microsoft is doing with their product but IE is getting worse and worse by the minute. I use to run it on an everyday business but for some reason it does not want to run well on any of my machines (slow web pages, takes ages to load, memory hog).

The only computer it runs fairly well on is my parents. And that is with a Pentium 4. I guess two of the worst technologies ever invented are very compatible with one another. :/

 

ie7 was ok with my 2.8 p4 desktop but ie6 was considerably faster

 

FireFox & Opera ...and Even Safari .. perform better on Windows Vista than IE7

I am saying this after keeping an approximate count of crashes, laggyness & Slow Web page loading.

IMO Safari is the smoothest. but i hardly use it

 

it did really seem safari was faster but it looked to much lika mac so i use opera and firefox 3 beta 3

 

Protected mode and the phishing filter will slow you down. Disable those, if you don't want to in fear of getting something nasty, use Firefox as your main browser.

 

how do you take off protected mode

 

Disable UAC, or rather, double click the "Internet| Protected Mode" at the bottom right in the status bar and click the box that says "Enable Protected Mode" so that it is empty.

 

I use IE7pro if I use IE........

 

One thing i don't like about IE addons is the fact that they install via exe and become an extra program instead of being a lightweight browser addon that only exists in the browser in the browser folder. Otherwise i might use that and i might like IE7 a lot more.

 

I haven't experienced IE7 on Vista, but on XP it's only marginally slower than Firefox or Opera. Like the program launches in 1 second instead of 0.5 seconds. Also, IE7 renders pages like Firefox - the browser waits for everything to download, and then it renders everything at once (Firefox does it faster), whereas Opera renders things as soon as they download.

 

Since you're speaking about the old version Firefox 2 i have to agree with you on that.

 

Nope you are wrong. Actually Firefox waits for everything to download and keeps on saying "transferring data" before rendering a web page. IE 7 does this faster.

 

I've used both Firefox 2 and IE7 and i can tell you that Firefox, does in fact render pages faster than IE7. I haven't used Firefox 2 in a long while so i can't say how much faster exactly but as far as i remember it was a pretty big difference if faster fox was used but if it was out of the box, there is barely, or no difference at all.

 

What? Since when was the current Firefox version 2[.0.0.12] old??? And don't tell me FF3 because that's still in beta and I'm certainly no developer and I'm not willing to risk using unstable/unfinished/incomplete software on my computer.

 

I did, it doesn't work as well as firefox's addons like you said though.
Well, it adds pipelining control

 

I believe there have already been benchmarks for the two browsers and IE does indeed render pages faster (by default anyways). I think Firefox only gives you the illusion that it renders faster since it loads everything and then displays it as opposed to IE's display as it loads so you see bits and pieces until it's completely rendered.

 

I find firefox to hog more system resources (RAM & CPU) than IE to be honest. Though i still use firefox as main browser because less bugs and better security.

 

Well i will tell you Firefox 3. It's really stable but if you don't feel like using it then don't.

I'd rather use Firefox than install that to make IE faster. Microsoft should fix this in IE8, although most people who use IE are fine with this.

That may be.

Yes, there is no dispute that it does. The security and bugs are less too. The memory usage issues are fixed for the most part in Firefox 3, but still not as little as IE7, although i haven't really done any tests.

 

All that matters is the subjective feeling of speed. Like how the icons in OS X's dock no longer bounce as much.