Matt Busse » Software http://mattbusse.com Journalism, technology and Web design Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:59:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Is your Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) slow to open a new tab? http://mattbusse.com/is-your-internet-explorer-8-ie8-slow-to-open-a-new-tab/ http://mattbusse.com/is-your-internet-explorer-8-ie8-slow-to-open-a-new-tab/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:39:42 +0000 Matt http://mattbusse.com/?p=215 If you use Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), is it very slow to open a new tab, often taking 10 seconds or more?

Try disabling the Java Plug-In SSV Helper add-on.

Hopefully this blog post makes enough of a mark in search engines to help someone else experiencing the same problem of Internet Explorer 8 being slow to open a new tab. It’s a specific solution to a specific problem, so it may not work for everyone.

Go to your Tools menu and click “Manage Add-Ons.”

Under “Toolbars and Extensions,” scroll to “Java(tm) Plug-In SSV Helper.” Right-click it and choose “Disable.”

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Disabling this will not stop you from being able to run Java applets in your browser.

Did this work? Is IE8 no longer slow opening a new tab? If so, please let me know by leaving a comment here!

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