For the longest time, my Firebird install had the habit of freezing for about 30 seconds before showing any Java applet. I'd sort of learned to live with it, but such a thing can become very annoying very fast when trying to take in all of the beautiful Proce55ing examples.

As it turns out, all I had to do to make the freezes go away was install the latest Sun JRE 1.4.2. Finally, no more delays!