Question

Back in the days of Java 5.0, I was able to tweak JVM options for the browser plugin in the Java control panel. Now with Java 7.0, there is no browser plugin tab anymore in the Java control panel.

Is it still possible to add JVM options for the browser plugin with Java 7.0? I’m talking about options like -Xmx256m or -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError.

Thanks

Answer 1

On Windows, go to Java Control Panel->Java and click “View”. You’ll then see the Java Runtime Environment Settings dialog. For each JVM you can add parameters in the Runtime Parameters column.

BTW, if you want to do this for all users you can pass a param to your applet in your HTML, e.g.:

<applet ...etc
    <param name="java_arguments" value="-Xmx256m">
</applet>