 <p>Please see this <a href="http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5127507" rel="nofollow noreferrer">link</a>.</p> <blockquote> <p>I just solved it actually by setting in the &lt;Applet .... tag the Name= property ...Now the Applet name is consistent across browsers.</p> </blockquote> <p>Otherwise try repeatedly calling:</p> <pre><code>getAppletContext().showStatus(""); </code></pre> <p>As described on <a href="http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=487929" rel="nofollow noreferrer">jGuru</a>.</p>