Ever noticed how opening Internet Explorer can take forever on some PCs? Thatâs generally because your add-ons are slowing it down to a crawlâand even worse than that, they affect creating new tabs as well.
Over at the official Internet Explorer blog, theyâve put together a chart that shows the most popular add-ons sorted by the amount of slowness they add to IEâs load times, but you can check for yourself and disable the add-ons if you want to. Weâve also got a copy of the chart below.
Disable Add-Ons in IE
Weâve already covered how to manage and troubleshoot add-ons in Internet Explorer, and you should definitely check out that article for a more in-depth look at the subject, but hereâs the quick and dirty methodâŠ
Head to Tools â> Manage Add-ons from the menu:
Once youâre there, youâll notice a column on the right called âLoad timeâ, which will show how many seconds an add-on is adding to the loading process.
You can select the add-ons and click the Disable button to get rid of them. Youâll probably want to make sure that youâve changed the drop-down for âCurrently loaded add-onsâ to âAll add-onsâ instead.
50 Slowest Popular Add-ons for IE8
Looking at this chart, if youâre using the AVG Safe Search add-on, your browser is taking an extra second to load. If youâve got multiple of these add-ons loaded, it could be even worse.
If your browser is really hosed, you should check out our guide to completely resetting Internet Explorer to the default settings, which can fix just about any problem you might have.