After installing the Inter Explorer 8 RC1 on my office PC (Vista Ultimate), the rendering of HTML emails in Lotus Notes 8.5 has become incredibly slow.
I had the same issue with IE8 Beta 2 and Notes 8.0.2 before. It disappeared after a rollback to IE7.
IE is not set as the default browser in Notes, BTW. And sorry for the crossposting with the 8.5 forum.
Subject: Notes now uses IE as it’s rendering engine for HTML emails. I think that is the problem.
Subject: Known issues with IE8 and Notes 8
Can’t find the link right now but I had a user last week who had a Vista Tablet PC with IE 8 installed and he had a number of problems with both Notes 8 and ST 8. Once he removed the beta he was fine.
Subject: IE 8 Causes Slow Email Rendering
We had the same problem with IE 8 and Notes 8.0.2 and 8.5. Email containing HTML would take 45 seconds to display. After reverting back to IE 7 the problem went away. This was on a XP pro SP3 3.5GB RAM.