IE - status bar shows loading continuously

Question

I have an razor MVC page - It is loaded via MVC Portable Areas. When i browse to the index action, everything loads fine, and works as expected.

...But occasionally Internet Explorer continually shows the loading bar in the status bar. The loading never completes, but the page functionality works fine (so it must have loaded all my resources)

I can't replicate this in firefox, and i have checked the Net tab on firebug to look for slow loading resources, but everything looks fine.

I want to try and cause the loading bar to stop after a set time (i know this could be masking a problem, but i can't seem to find out what is going wrong with the page!!) Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

IE does that sometimes. Like you said, there is no actual issues except for the loadfing bar being shown.

To confirm that everything is OK, put an alert("loaded") in your $(document).ready();. If it alerts you, the page was successfully loaded and it's just IE being a buggy little... bugger.

Edit: I missed a bit. Continued:

This is ofcourse only the case if you do not have ajax calls etc on the page that can start a loading sequence after the document has loaded. In that case, use the debugger to check for open connections.