Fix Applet Freezing for once and for all!

You know its really surprising to me that this applet freezing bug isn't being seriously worked on by Sun or Microsoft or whoever is responsible. I have been plagued by this for 3 years now and there is no improvement.
Everybody who plays online games on the internet knows of the notorious Java "freezing" problem (there are notes in the FAQ's of all the major gamesites: pogo, gamesville, bingo.com, bingoonline, etc), and it is commonly understood that it is caused by sound conflicts.
This is a problem that really irritates hundreds of thousands of people every day, and is doing a lot to give Java a very bad name. If I tell prospective customers that my games are Java based they wince and tell me that they would prefer Flash front-ends because of this freezing problem.
I know what some of you are thinking: Q: Why not loop a silent sound clip in the background? A: That only results in a 70% improvement in the freezing, but when people play casino games nonstop they still freeze at least once every half hour. Q: Freezing is due to bad programming A: Thats a crock. I have yet to hear about a single online applet with sound that doesn't suffer from this problem. Turn off the sound, and the problem goes away completely.
So seriously, if any of you are as sick of this as I am, please vote for this bug in the bug parade:
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4394767.html
Chuck

Hi there,
As I mentioned in my message the only workaround that marginally improves the situation is to loop a silent sound clip while the program is running. I'm not sure if this problem occurs with the plugin or even java 1.2- it doesnt make much difference to me because I still have to write my games in java 1.1 so that they can be used on most browsers without requiring the players to install special software or plug-ins. I do recall seeing a "patch" on the microsoft site last november that was supposed to fix this problem, but obviously it didn't..

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