Paracounter Applet

[lopburi3]

Had IE6 lockup this morning for first time ever: while viewing forum and had to give it the three finger salute and end process.

Now have noticed after page loads "Applet ParaCounter started" is displayed in bottom toolbar "status" and if scroll over a topic that shortcut is displayed. But if go back to side get the Applet message again and then it is gone until reload page. Do we have new software? Never noticed this stuff before.

[george]

It's on request of the members. It's a java counter that tells how many persons who are logged in to new Thaivisa chat room http://chat.thaivisa.com . (The actual counter is located below the Buddhism and Farang ladies forum on the forum main menu).

Anyone more having problems related to this?

[lopburi3]

I just locked up again. The applet was indicated but I had clicked on a forum topic and had one green indication of download. Could not refresh or close explorer and found it was not responding again. Closed and opened another IE6 window that was still in tray with no problem so it is just the active IE6 being taken out. I am using Jave 2 platform 1.5.0 and for some reason had two cups of coffee in my tray (maybe it is telling me I need to drink one of them?).

[george]

I am not a java specialist, but it looks to meethat you might have an outdated version of Java. Maybe someone could clarify what you need to do in order to have it running smoothly on your computer.

If nobody answers here, I will move this topic to the IT forum.

Please help out someone!

[Thetyim]

Come on surely someone can help.

This is for Lopburi3, the guy who helps everyone else.

I have noticed the applet but do not have any problems with it.

[lopburi3]

I did not have any problem yesterday or so far today. The times I did have trouble noticed two java cups in start tray so perhaps, for some reason, java started two times and conflicted. Believe my Java is up to date. Thanks.

Believe I had also used the web cam of immigration those two times prior to lockups so maybe had java loaded for them and forum loaded another incidence?

[Khun Jean]

Paracounter problem is still there.

Unfortunately it is on the index page for the forums.

It forces my computer to load a whole java subsytem, only to show a ver small counter. There are many ways of doing that without a resource attack.

You could get the count once in a while on the server and just send it as a image or better a smaal text embedded in the HTML.

The whole forum works great athough annoyingly slow only when going back to the index it is very very slow almost a full stop compared to the other pages. And yep it is the paracounter that is causing it. I filtered it out and the speed gain is enormous. The whole java subengine doesn't have to be started.

Especially when you use the "back" function this paracounter messes things up. Many times IE just freezes and has to be restarted.

I have a solution, that speeds up thaivisa a lot. But some features are not functional.I put www.thaivisa.com in the restricted zone and put the security level to its lowest level.

After that just enable what you still want. There are a bunch of cookies but you need only one that remembers you login.

With many things disabled, i again have joy reading thaivisa forum.

Why didn't i think of it before, after such a long time with these irritating gadgets.

[John_Betong]

I am not a java specialist, but it looks to meethat you might have an outdated version of Java. Maybe someone could clarify what you need to do in order to have it running smoothly on your computer.

If nobody answers here, I will move this topic to the IT forum.

Please help out someone!

Hi George,

Try this link to test for your Java version, etc

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?test=1

Cheers,

John_Betong

Edited February 14, 2006 by John_Betong