BUG: window.open Causes Delay in NewWindow Event

ID: Q194242

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

When hosting the WebBrowser control, it is possible to have all navigation occur in the hosting application. This is described in Knowledge Base article number Q185538 "HOWTO: Cause Navigation to Occur in Same WebBrowser Window."

However, when the NewWindow event is fired in response to a scripted window.open call, there is a 60 second delay before navigation occurs. In addition, in Internet Explorer 4.0x, an "Unspecified Error" occurs.


RESOLUTION

The only known workaround is to create a new instance of the hosting application for the new window. This is described in the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q184876 HOWTO: Use the WebBrowser Control NewWindow2 Event.


STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.


REFERENCES

For more information, please see the MSDN Web Workshop:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/default.asp

For additional information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q185538 HOWTO: Cause Navigation to Occur in Same WebBrowser Window

Q184876 HOWTO: Use the WebBrowser Control NewWindow2 Event

Additional query words: 


Keywords          : kbIE400bug kbIE401bug kbWebBrowser kbIE401sp1bug kbIE500dp1bug 
Version           : WINDOWS:4.0,4.01,4.01sp1,5.0dp1
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: May 3, 1999