multiple java icons in system tray

[JM]

a friend of mine was complaining today about having as many as 6 java icons
running in his XP Professional system tray. what determines this? does java
run an instance of every program that uses the service? if so, could it be
that java instances of java are not shutting down?

thank you,

jm

 

[Alias]

a friend of mine was complaining today about having as many as 6 java icons
running in his XP Professional system tray. what determines this? does java
run an instance of every program that uses the service? if so, could it be
that java instances of java are not shutting down?

thank you,

jm

It means he needs to update to JRE 5.0.6 and remove all instances of
Java except the latest one from Add/Remove.

http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp

Alias

 

[Tim Slattery]

a friend of mine was complaining today about having as many as 6 java icons
running in his XP Professional system tray. what determines this? does java
run an instance of every program that uses the service? if so, could it be
that java instances of java are not shutting down?

IE doesn't do tabbed browsing, you have to start a new IE window to
see two web sites at once. If both sites run Java applets, then each
window will start a JVM (Java Virtual Machine) and you'll see two Java
icons in the tray. Each icon will stay there until the window that
opened it is closed.

Mozilla Firefox allows you to see many websites in a single window via
tabbed browsing. All the sites can use a single JVM.