Re: Iceweasel/Firefox 2.0 and Java applets

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

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.
> If the NWS site is really busy it means Iceweasel will freeze for a long 
> period of time (length of load times are in minutes when the site is 
> slow) and the only way to leave the site is to right click the top of 
> the browser, choose close, and and when the "force close" pop up window 
> appears force it to close.
> I never had this problem with Firefox 1.x.  If the site was slow, and I 
> didn't want to wait, I could just choose another site from Bookmarks and 
> surf away from the site.  Iceweasel has changed all that.
>
> Is anyone else running into this?

This is an iceweasel issue again, I think. I tried those loops with 
FireFox 2.0 from upstream and experienced no freezes at all.

Hugo