If you're working on a slow system and notice a significant speed degradation while visiting Java enabled web pages, you can disable Java support to find out if you could gain some speed. Speed degradation occur on slow systems because some Java enabled pages take longer to load, specially, during your first visit. Also certain graphics and math intensive Java applets take a bigger slice of the CPU time, leaving less processing time for your other applications while the applet is in action.

TIP: Although temporally disabling Java applets could gain some speed under certain conditions, please note that you may also loose some of the web page functionality. Some web pages have backup functions that would fill-in for Java, but most don't.

Navigator 3.x

• Go to "Options | Network Preferences..." from the main menu

• Change to the "Languages" tab

• To enable: make sure "Enable Java" check box is checked

• To disable: make sure "Enable Java" check box is unchecked

• Restart the browser

Communicator 4.x

• Go to "Edit | Preferences..." from the main menu

• Select "Advanced" panel

• To enable: make sure "Enable Java" check box is checked.

• To disable: make sure "Enable Java" check box is unchecked.

• Restart the browser

Explorer 3.x

• Go to "View | Options..." from the main menu

• Change to the "Security" tab

• To enable: make sure "Enable Java programs" check box is checked

• To disable: make sure "Enable Java programs" check box is unchecked

• Restart the browser

Explorer 4.x

• Go to "View | Internet Options..." from the main menu

• Change to the "Security" tab

• Select "Custom" and click on the "Settings..." button

• To enable: make sure "Disable Java" is selected under "Java."

• To disable: make sure a setting other than "Disable Java" is selected under "Java." If you're not sure which setting to choose, select "High safety"

• Restart the browser

Explorer 5.x

• Go to "Tools | Internet Options..." from the main menu

• Change to the "Security" tab

• Click "Custom Level..." button

• To enable: make sure "Disable Java" is selected under "Java."

• To disable: make sure a setting other than "Disable Java" is selected under "Java." If you're not sure which setting to choose, select "High safety"

• Restart the browser

TIP: Simply reloading the page, rather than restarting the browser, maybe sufficient under most conditions and browser versions.