How you can fix IE8′s slow “View Source”

Monday, June 1st, 2009 | Business

I installed Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) on my main machine a few weeks ago, and have been using other browser’s “View Source” since IE8′s default View Source editor takes forever to load.

With all the work, I didn’t have time to figure out how to fix it, but YOU CAN!

IE8 uses an internal viewer by default, but you can easily change it:

  1. Get into the Developer Tools screen (F12 or Tools->Developer Tools)
  2. File->Customize Internet Explorer View Source (yeah I know, weird)
  3. Set to Notepad (like it used to be) or “Other” and use your viewer (I used TextPad)

Now, can anyone recommend a better “View Source” application?  I haven’t looked into this, but it may be a great opportunity to improve efficiency doing HTML and debugging.

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3 Comments to How you can fix IE8′s slow “View Source”

Splinters
November 6, 2009

Use Notepad++
Brilliant editor and free too!

Evgeniy Dolzhenko
January 29, 2010

Notepad++ installer can even register it as the default HTML viewer.

Now what is sad is that you can’t fix the whole Developer Tools package that way :)

Simon
May 5, 2010

THANK YOU. yes, “File->Customize Internet Explorer View Source” is WEIRD.
IE8 was soooo slow, even worse trying to scroll down while the editor was still loading: death trap.

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