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Originally posted by Freiluft
Have you noticed that the market is not exactly flooded with Java apps for the Macintosh? There are reasons.
Assigning Limewire almost twenty times the minimum RAM is a needless waste of your computer's resources.
It doesn't matter if apps are open when you change the appearance manager. Why Charcoal? Why not the old standard default Chicago??
The default location for MRJ is *not* Applications, but System Extensions and Program support within that. If, however, the sys CD you used for the clean install did not have the latest MRJ, then it was overwritten with the previous version. Unless you have moved it, it will have installed in the proper place.
Rebuilding the desktop is always good maintenance. Zapping the PRAM basically gives you something to do, but actually resolves few problems.
I would check the MRJ version, then reinstall the latest Limewire. If that doesn't work, perhaps you can find an earlier version or wait for he next one to be released. |
Hello!
Yes there is reasons why the Mac market is not flooded with Java Apps for macs.But that is not because Mac is worse at handeling Java then Windows or Unix.The reason is mainly due to history.In the past Macintosh computers and their MRJ applet readers was poor at execute Java correctly with the result that your Mac crashed when executing them and also it did not handle Java Scripts well either.I personally remember how often my Mac used to crash when visiting heavy Java Websites just a couple of years ago.But the introduction of MRJ 2.2.x was a blessing for us Mac Users and I no longer have problems with Java scripts or applets.But at that time the Classical Mac OS which I still use was at its end of life and Apple introduced Mac OS X with the result that no Java Apps(well almost no Java apps thank good for LimeWire) where developed for Macs.
You missinterpretted my suggestion.I suggested that he/she should have increased the preffered memory(maximum) and not the minimum value.You should never increase the minimum value only the maximum value.And Apple recommends that you assign 30000-32000K of maximum memory to MRJ and minimum 40000K(But preferrably 64000) to LimeWire.
Yes you are correct that it does not matter if apps are open when opening the Appearance control panel but my experience is that not all apps are able to adapt the changes without a re-boot of the computer thats why I suggested that He/She should turn off all open apps and then make the adjustments and re-start his/hers mac.
The reason I suggested Charcoal for the large System Fonts is because I think it looks best.However the most important thing to change is the other Fonts options to Geneva 10 points that is because it is the default and many apps will have problems displaying content in lists if that is changed.
I am Using Mac OS 9.1 and the default location for Mac OS RunTime For Java has always been Macintosh HD>Applications(Mac OS 9)>Program extras(Or something similar not exactly sure what it is called in English OS).For me the System Extensions folder inside the System Folder is turned off by default.