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27th February 2009 - Link Blog

Magic properties make Firefox synchronously load the Java plugin. Even defining a function called sun() (or several other symbols) will trigger the Java VM to be loaded, dramatically hurting the performance of your page.

Posted 27th February 2009 at 4:03 pm

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