I liked the idea of tabbed browsing when IE7 came out. However, when I press Ctrl+T (new tab) IE opens new tab, and for some time it becomes irresponsible, new tab is displaying “Connecting”. This happens even with default page set do “about:blank”. In fact, this IE7 behavior made me to switch to FireFox and left some of my machines with IE6.
Do you know why this delay occurs?
Best Answer
Your problem could be related to your IE addons or also if you have a long restricted sites list (tools -> security -> restricted sites):
Check Microsoft's How to make IE open new tabs faster:
If your problem is not related to your addons, then use this file (from Adding unwanted sites to the Internet Explorer Restricted Zone) to delete all your restricted sites:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/DelDomains.inf (right-click -> install)