> Given the JRE was already started, you'd expect the load time to be a few seconds at most. For sure not 5 minutes before a page becomes interactive. My recol

> Given the JRE was already started, you'd expect the load time to be a few seconds at most. For sure not 5 minutes before a page becomes interactive. My recollection of these times is that when the JRE was not already started (which was often the case), it took up to one minute to start - and during this start process, the whole browser was frozen, with a helpful message on the status bar pointing to Java as the culprit. No wonder people started to think of Java as slow.