java 8u31 plugin causes signed applets to load much slower

Question

i have noticed that signed applets are loaded much slower with the latest plugin (included in java 8u31 and 7u75). I have debugged the situation quite a lot and i found out that

Answer 1

Have you tried your jnlp without versioning? In my experience Java jnlp is very buggy specially if you change the jnlp default values. Versioning support is disabled by support, so try it without versioning and see if it still slow?

For me, I noticed some bugs when I used update="background" value, so I no longer change the default update method. My theory is that Oracle only tests jnlp against default values before they release new Java versions.