java applets dead slow to load

[Robert Menes]

On 5/30/07, Fred Schaer <fred.schaer at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm really strugling with that : whenever I try to load a page where
> there is a java applet, I have the feeling the browser (firefox) is just
> dead and frozen... but if I wait for let's say 2 real minutes, it
> finally loads the web page.
>
> Amongst the webpages is :
> http://www.java.com/fr/download/help/testvm.xml
>
> I could accept that if my computer was very old, but it's a brand new
> core 2 duo that cann't be so slow... ???
> Is someone else facing this kind of problem ?
> I tried with a new profile, and this changed nothing...
>
> Any hint ?
>
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Hi Fred,

One possibility could be because Sun just recently open sourced the Java
programming language, and a lot of the implimentations for POSIX-compliant
OSes are still rather rough around the edges.

If this is wrong, then I stand corrected and I'll eat my words. With a
little
Ragu on top. :)

Rob

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