romovs wrote:Quite a few people (at least 6 that I know of) are still using 1.6 because of that notorious Mac OS X mouse issue.
Yeah, if you do decide to go to java 8, which if you can optimize better would obviously be wonderful, please figure out what is going on here first...
Edit: it is not to do with color depth, as far as I can figure out. There is no way to even put yosemite (have not upgraded to el Capitan yet) into less than 32bit color, I think. My guess is that it is apple's fault, their java version is installed very deep in the system and even if you install java 8 it still maybe keeps some things to do with their "special" version, which breaks some stuff.
Edit: Borka, not true - I'm on yosemite.