Browser add-ons enhances experience and capabilities and are loaded by Internet Explorer when you open a new browser window or tab. Usually a quick process, but certain add-ons may cause IE to take a longer time than expected; you see an IE tab with ‘Connecting…’ at the top, and as a result, the web page (even if it is about:blank) takes a few seconds to load. You can fix this by doing following: “Examine performance impact of your add-ons using Manage Add-ons dialog. Click on Tools - Manage Add-ons, and look at the ‘Load time’ column. The load time shows average time to load the add-on** and the wait time to finish initializing for each new window or tab creation. If you do not want to keep a slow loading add-on around, you can disable it, and it won’t be loaded the next time you open a new window or tab. You can also open Add/Remove Programs and remove IE add-ons that you are not using.”