Internet Explorer - View Source

• UTILITY Add New Internet Explorer 5+ Editor
  Adds new editor to "Edit with" button in Internet Explorer and as right click option for HTML files in Windows Explorer. Additional option to set editor as default for "View Source". Compatible with I.E. 6.
  http://www.billsway.com/vbspage/
  
  
• Cannot View Source in Internet Explorer
  When you click the View Source command in Internet Explorer (on the View menu, click Source), the source for the current page is not displayed, and there is no error message.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q154168 (Jul. 26, 2000)
  
  
• Changing Source Code Editor in Internet Explorer
  This article describes how to configure Internet Explorer to display an Edit button on the tool bar.
  This allows you to view Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) source code with the editor of your choice.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q163606 (W95/98 Jun. 4, 2001)
  
  
• How to View HTML Source Code for Web Pages in Internet Explorer
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q176222 (Oct. 10, 2001)
  
  
• Cannot View HTML Source Code for Web Pages in Internet Explorer
  When you attempt to view the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) source code for a Web page in Internet Explorer, the HTML source code may not be displayed, and you may not receive an error message.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q179829 (Dec. 19, 1999)
  
  
• Cannot View Source Code for Web Pages
  This issue can occur if your Cookies folder is located on an NTFS partition and you do not have at least Change permissions for the Cookies folder.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q203592 (NT Jul. 20, 2001)
  
  
• Source Code Is Not Displayed When You Click Source on the View Menu in Internet Explorer
  This behavior can occur if there are too many files in the Temporary Internet Files folder.
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q306907 (Oct. 4, 2001)
  
  
• Your solution fixed several problems that I was having with IE5.5. Among them:
  1) the browser had stopped caching pages and would reload a page each time,
  2) the View Source command didn't work,
  3) if I tried to download any image it was renamed to "entitled.bmp" and I would have to type in the correct name, and
  4) I couldn't download attachments to my Yahoo Mail.
  
  REDUCE IE's cache size to 50-100 MB, and delete all Temporary Internet Files
  
  [Tools > Internet Options > Temporary Internet Files > Settings - you know the drill.]
  
  It seems that when IE's cache setting is too high [a Gig or more], it chokes. "View Source" stops working, the "Edit" button gets grayed out permanently, and all content on the Web stops caching completely. I Noticed mine was set on 3,000 MB, so I backed it off to 50 and everythings beautiful in the world again [finally]. I was wondering why everything I viewed in the past 2 months was reloading from the server every single time.
  
  A large cache is not necessarily a good thing. Microsoft recommends cranking up your cache size to "increase efficiency", but they need to learn their own application. A small[ish] cache will ensure you are not seeing out dated content on the Web. A 50-meg cache is plenty to last a few weeks before it fills up and old cache content begins to fall away. Who wants 4-month-old content hanging around in a massive cache?