IE6 incredibly slow

  •  08-10-2007, 5:36 AM

    IE6 incredibly slow

    Hi
     
    We recently upgraded the editor to V6 on our live site. Since then all users using IE6 have been complaining of major performance issues. It can sometimes take up to 5 mins before the editor has downloaded all the relevant files for the editor. It only seems to affect IE6, 5.5 and 7 and firefox clones all work fine! (well except for loads of activeX warnings under IE5.5 but we have always had those!)
     
    When loading the editor you can see in the status bar it starts with about 60 files to download, it goes OK, then seems to stall on random ones. However what is very strange is that the filename its downloading never seems to change. It always says load.ashx?type=image&file=blank2020.png.
     
    On testing your demo page the editor itself shows in about 10 secs, then it takes another 30 secs or so to download another 100 files all of which seem to have the same URL as above. Using IE7 etc its fine the page shows in a couple of seconds. I have never had it stall on your site. Question is why does IE6 insist on downloading all these files, we did not have a problem with V5.3.
     
    Any ideas on IE6?
     
    Thanks
     
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