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Lenovo Thinkpad add on for IE7 slowing things down

pooyad — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:17:00 GMT

I just got a new Lenovo Thinkpad T61p at work and am getting it set up. Overall, it's very nice, I like the Thinkpad design, the pointing stick, and am getting used to the widescreen.

I noticed that IE7 was unusally slow, especially when opening a new tab. I always set the home page to blank to make sure everything opens fast; but for some reason everytime I would open a new tab it would take between 3-10 seconds before it would actually allow me to use the new tab. I'd never seen this before with IE7 on my old laptop or home laptop. Checked new tabs in my firefox installation and it was fine.

After a little searching I found the answer, though in a different language :) It turns out it's an add-on from Lenovo (CPwmIEBrowserHelper Object) that's causing the problem.

It turns out many others have seen the same issue. Now things are back to normal, happily browsing ... now to get my old passwords into this browser.

Adding a custom search provider in IE7

pooyad — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:45:00 GMT

I spent a few minutes building a search provider for Firefox the other day and today saw that the IE guys have done all the work for you. If you find any search site that isn't listed in the Search Providers page, you can have a new one created and installed in 1 simple step. Try it yourself, it could not be simpler:

Create your own search provider

New releases of IE7 for public use

pooyad — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:07:00 GMT

IE7 public release candidate 1 is now available! I've been using IE7 for a few months and I have to tell you it's great, a huge improvement over IE6. The tabbed browsing (if you haven't already used it, you will be amazed) will clean up your workspace. It looks great and runs fast, you get your choice of search providers. The thing I like the most though is the RSS support. It's very impressive and means that you no longer need a seperate RSS feed reader. IE7 can keep track of your favorite RSS feeds and also allow you to sort and filter the items in the feeds in a nice graphical environment that you're used to. I still have my issues with the in-page search but thats a discussion to have with the IE team; I reccomend it for everyone using an older version of IE, there's so much it offers check it the new features and let us know what you think.