I think I am having a problem with Java - I’m not even sure if that is the case, so please bare with me. THe problem is this:
All of the online gaming sites/chat sites, etc. - anything interactive - are not working for me. When I open them, I get an icon like when explorer cannot display a picture, and explorer says that the page is loaded. No amount of refreshing changes anything.
Now, I know these sites need Java - I haven’t changed my settings though, and they worked a few days ago, so why is the Java not working now? I looked at my settings and tried changing them a little and restarting the computer, but to no avail. I am afraid to try anything more drastic.
OneChance - thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, I checked out updates, and found nothing of interest.
I have tried to think of anything I might have done in the last few days that could have changed my settings, but I can’t think of anything. None of my efforts have made any difference. I have come to the conclusion that perhaps my computer is trying to tell me to spend more time offline, socializing, or whatever it is people who are not online do.
I had a problem getting Java to work on my machine at one point - particularly the site my mom had to access in order to get her email for work. The problem was different but persistent in both NS and IE.
I tried everything - reinstalling and upgrading both browsers, still nothing. I read a bunch of stuff and still couldn’t get it to work. I never knew what the problem had been - I just reinstalled the OS after being sick of it.
Have you tried Netscape? It has a java console that might give you some clues. NS6 has the better Java console (more user friendly, I think). But I don’t recommend Netscape for your daily browser over IE…just as a test
I had a friend who had much the same problem. Turned out she didn’t have the microsoft virtual machine installed. It’s easy to miss on the windows update site because it doesn’t refer to java directly (IIRC). I’d recommend going back and seeing if you can install it.
That’s because Microsoft doesn’t want you to use Java – why, if more people wrote Java code, then you could actually run your Java software on a (gasp!) non-Windows computers! The horrors! :eek:
First the JRE files are notoriously hard to get up to date. I have usually resorted to copying the dll files directly.
Second this does not sound like a JRE problem, as these generally either display nothing or generate a JavaScript error on page.
I would guess that it is a plug in that you are missing (or out of date) without knowing the site or the browser configuration It would be hard to guess which one.
That or the java options on your browse are set to disable all applets/JavaScript.
I used to go to www.games.com for the occasional game of scrabble. There is a general menu, then you click through to a sign in page, which delivers you to a more specific menu, then you click to open a game. Right up until the game itself, everything looks normal. Then all I get is a little image icon, and the browser says “done”.
This is the same on other gaming sites, as well as some chat sites. I am running Microsoft Internet Explorer. One of my RL friends suggested to me to reinstall IE, but all I have is a disk to reinstall the whole system (with which IE came standard), which I really don’t want to do.
How would I know if the java options are set wrong?
Be sure to get the recommended patches and updates as well. I am not sure if they update their downloads with those.
You can also download Netscape http://www.netscape.com and see if you are having the same problem, then you would know if it’s a program problem or a system-wide problem. I don’t recommend using Netscape as your permanent browser, though (just my opinion. It crashes like crazy for me.)
I’ve seen some pretty speedy JVMs; for most “consumer” applications, speed isn’t a matter anyway – you’re certainly not going to be typing faster than your 1.5 GHz processor can follow. And there are also Java compilers that will take Java code and produce optimized platform-specific executables, which gives even more speed.
(Oddly enough, some of the slowest JVMs are those that run under Windows. Ya don’t suppose that’s why people think “Java is slow,” do you? )