Good suggestion. Here's what I did. I set my home page to www.vivisimo.com (a search engine I use with a very static web page). Next, I open EI, it loads the page instantly. Then, I try to go to www.cnn.com, and get the 20 second delay. I suspect the "vivisimo" page elements were being loaded from my local disk (cache?), and that the CNN page was the first to try to access the web
Next, I set my home page to www.cnn.com. (a much more dynamic web page). This time, when I opened IE, nothing loaded for 20 seconds.
In both cases, navigating to a subsequent web page (www.foxnews.com, to be politically balanced) happened very quickly, and normally.
I've disabled 3rd party browser.
I've also done the following.
- Deleted all "off line" files.
- Deleted IE history.
So far, none of these have made any changes to the symptoms. (Still a consistant 20 second delay on the first page only).
I did notice one new thing that may help however. During the 20 second delay, in the lower left corner of the IE window, a text message says: "Detecting proxy settings". That goes away when the web page finally starts loading.
OK! Problem solved! :-) Many thanks to those that posted here, and on the other thread. I would not have discovered the solution without being led close to it by you folks.
Here's what I found. In the LAN section of Connection Tab of Internet Options, there are two boxes that can be checked.
- Automatically Detect Settings
- Use automatic configuration script.
(I have a URL entered into the field for the second one. It's for a VPN connection I use at work. I didn't mention it earlier because I didn't think it was involved.) I ran a test, setting these two selections to all four possible combinations. Here's what I found.
Auto detect on off on off
Use auto config on on off off
20 sec. delay? Yes Yes No No
VPN works? Yes Yes Yes Yes
Summary:
1) If "use Auto Config Script" was checked, I suffered the 20 second delay, regardless of the "auto detect" setting.
2) My VPN connection worked, regardless of the settings. (Albeit, the address was in the box, whether it was grayed out or not.)
Lastly, evidently IE 5.0 had a similar problem. I found a Knowledge Base paper on it. # 220902. It said to disable "Auto detect", which turns out not to solve the problem. But it helped to get me to the right area.
fireberd
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November 29th, 2003 10:00
It sounds like I.E. is trying to find "about:blank" and the 20 second delay is the time it takes to time out (????)
jake the cat
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November 29th, 2003 11:00
Good suggestion. Here's what I did. I set my home page to www.vivisimo.com (a search engine I use with a very static web page). Next, I open EI, it loads the page instantly. Then, I try to go to www.cnn.com, and get the 20 second delay. I suspect the "vivisimo" page elements were being loaded from my local disk (cache?), and that the CNN page was the first to try to access the web
Next, I set my home page to www.cnn.com. (a much more dynamic web page). This time, when I opened IE, nothing loaded for 20 seconds.
In both cases, navigating to a subsequent web page (www.foxnews.com, to be politically balanced) happened very quickly, and normally.
karn3ra
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November 29th, 2003 13:00
jake the cat
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November 29th, 2003 13:00
I've disabled 3rd party browser.
I've also done the following.
- Deleted all "off line" files.
- Deleted IE history.
So far, none of these have made any changes to the symptoms. (Still a consistant 20 second delay on the first page only).
I did notice one new thing that may help however. During the 20 second delay, in the lower left corner of the IE window, a text message says: "Detecting proxy settings". That goes away when the web page finally starts loading.
Does that help?
jake the cat
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November 29th, 2003 15:00
Here's what I found. In the LAN section of Connection Tab of Internet Options, there are two boxes that can be checked.
- Automatically Detect Settings
- Use automatic configuration script.
(I have a URL entered into the field for the second one. It's for a VPN connection I use at work. I didn't mention it earlier because I didn't think it was involved.) I ran a test, setting these two selections to all four possible combinations. Here's what I found.
Auto detect on off on off
Use auto config on on off off
20 sec. delay? Yes Yes No No
VPN works? Yes Yes Yes Yes
Summary:
1) If "use Auto Config Script" was checked, I suffered the 20 second delay, regardless of the "auto detect" setting.
2) My VPN connection worked, regardless of the settings. (Albeit, the address was in the box, whether it was grayed out or not.)
Lastly, evidently IE 5.0 had a similar problem. I found a Knowledge Base paper on it. # 220902. It said to disable "Auto detect", which turns out not to solve the problem. But it helped to get me to the right area.
Thanks again for the help.