Comment 1 by jteh on 2010-08-27 16:25
I never even knew this issue existed. It should be investigated for a possible fix before we just document it as a warning.

I can't reproduce it here with IE 8. Is it specific to IE 7?
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Changed title from "Warning needed in docs about slow system menu in IE" to "Slow system menu in IE 7"

Attachment system menu in ie with xp freeze.log added by briang1 on 2010-08-27 18:15
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Comment 2 by briang1 on 2010-08-27 18:28
Well, I'm sure I was involved in a discussion on one of these groups about this some time ago, at which time someone on the dev team said it was a bug in XP when IE was in use. If I'd not been pretty sure, I'd have mentioned it befor. There have been quite a few mentions of it on the freelist list now and again as well. The log I've attached is different to the one I posted on the dev group earlier on, as it also contains the effect of turning off the watchdog routine, which basically results in a hang until you press the alt key. Thus watchdog is doing his job, if a little slowly!
IE 8 seems to suffer in xp as well.

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Changed title from "Slow system menu in IE 7" to "Slow system menu in IE on XP"

Comment 3 by jteh on 2010-09-01 23:27
I was able to reproduce this with IE 7 in Windows XP.

Comment 4 by jteh on 2010-09-14 01:07
96615ff reduces the time from over 10 seconds to about 2 or 3. This is as good as we're going to get, at least for now.
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State: closed

Comment 5 by briang1 on 2010-09-14 19:49
I'm getting better than 2 seconds here even on the slow machines. Looking at the log I see its still triggering watchdog. I'd also suggest that this version seems faster in the favourites menu as well, but that could be just a coincidence.