On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 16:52 +0100, Jostein Elvaker Haande wrote: > Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > Hi All, > > Ever since I upgraded to Iceweasel (Firefox 2.0) while a Java applet is > > loading the entire browser freezes. Most Java applets aren't very > > large on the sites I frequent, but the National Weather Service radar > > loops and satellite loops are rather large, and/or their sites are slow, > > and Iceweasel freezes completely until the entire radar map or satellite > > map is loaded. > > Dear Freddy > > I'm myself am not a user of NWS, being located in Europe, but I've > recently had some problems with Java myself. This problem effected all > applications trying to use Java, from Iceweasel to Azureus. After some > research, I found that I wasn't using Sun's JRE, instead I was using > some crappy JRE (don't remember which though), even though I had > installed Sun's own VM. > > To find out what VM you are using, issue the 'java -version' command, > which should read something along these lines; > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ java -version > java version "1.5.0_09" > Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_09-b03) > Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_09-b03, mixed mode, sharing) > > If you haven't installed Sun's on VM, proceed to www.sun.com/java and > download the latest tarball, and install that using the 'make-jpkg' > (installable using apt-get install make-jpkg). Just follow the > instructions given to you by make-jpkg. Before you install, make sure > you don't have any other Java VM's installed. > > Hope this helps you. >
Thanks for the reply, but I install, and use, Sun's jre. I make sure of what java environment I'm using with update-alternatives. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]