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| caption = HotJava 3.0 under Windows XP.

| developer = [[Sun Microsystems]]<ref name="nwfusion" />

| released = March 24, 1997 <ref name="nwfusion">{{cite web|last=Rakitin|first=Jason|title=Review: Alternative Web browsers|url=http://www.nwfusion.com/news/1997/1027browser2.html|publisher=''Network World Fusion''|accessdate=August 16, 2010|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20011005005015/www.nwfusion.com/news/1997/1027browser2.html|archivedate= October 5, 2001|date=October 27, 1997}}</ref> <ref>{{citewebcite web|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sun+Microsystems%2c+Inc.+to+Ship+HotJava+Browser+1.0%3b+New+Customizable...-a019198262|title=Sun Microsystems, Inc. to Ship HotJava Browser 1.0; New Customizable Browser Enables Custom Web Interface|publisher=''Business Wire''|date=March 11, 1997|accessdate=June 10, 2014}}</ref>

| latest release version = Late 2004 <small>''v3.0''</small>

| latest release date =

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==Usage==

HotJava had somewhat limited functionality compared to other browsers of its time.

More critically, HotJava suffered from the inherent performance limitations of [[Java Virtual Machine]] implementations of the day (both in terms of processing speed and memory consumption) and hence was considerably sluggish.<ref>{{cite webbook|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=sX60mAi0eQUC&pg=PA378&lpg=PA378&dq=hotjava+browser+performance+slow&source=bl&ots=UkKp0KW6bm&sig=nY1_4NF3qt9UO1A2EizzpEqlZ-U&hl=en&ei=m0dWStLaGOSrjAeumrjfAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9|author=Killelea, Patrick|title=Web Performance Tuning, Second Edition|publisher=''O'Reilly Books''|date=2002}}</ref>

==See also==

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[[Category:Java platform software]]

[[Category:Sun Microsystems software]]

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