[plug] Java plugin in Mozilla slow....

[Ben Jensz]

Craig Ringer wrote:

>
> Have you checked to see if the issue is CPU load (using 'top' or 
> similar), if the machine is swapping, taking ages to transfer data 
> to/from the switch, etc?

I didn't check CPU usage, but I was multi-tasking and everything else 
was loading virtually instantly like usual.  The machine has 512Mb of 
RAM in it and none of the other applications I had open at the time 
would be using altogether no more than half of that.  Like I said in my 
original message, it works fine under Windows with Mozilla on the same 
machine (it dual boots), so it has to be something to do with the 
software under Linux.

>
> If you're using Mozilla 1.4 or newer (vanilla from mozilla.org), you 
> need the gcc3.2-built version of the Java 1.4.2 browser plugin. This 
> only works on systems built with gcc3.2, so all Debian Woody users and 
> other older distro users have to wait for debian packages of Mozilla 
> or build your own with gcc 2.x. Mozilla built with GCC 2.x will work 
> with older java builds, so there's no need to grab sun's latest beta.

Mozilla 1.3.1 with Mandrake 9.1.  I just installed the RPM package of 
Java from Sun.

>
> My new Netgear managed switch is Java based, too. It works rather 
> nicely, however, and I'm quite happy with it. Admittedly because I was 
> half expecting a message saying "Your browser does not support ActiveX".

Bah!  Netgear...  just hope you never have to ring their support line.  
Last time I did, their local number redirected to a call centre in the 
states and I was on hold for an hour and a half and once I finally got 
through to someone, it was a fella who sounded totally spaced out whose 
name was "Randy" with a thick american accent.  It was in regards to 
troubleshooting a Netgear ISDN router and he was about as much use as 
the troubleshooting piece of paper that came with it.. i.e. about as 
useful as tits on a bull.  It would've been about 2am their time, he 
asked if I could call back during business hours and ask for a senior 
technician.. business hours for them being the wee hours of the morning 
our time....


/ Ben