I found the problem,
Before when you load the comic applet, it would download the comic or gif file to your home directory. Now i found the gif file in the /tmp directory,
when i move it to my home dir, the applet works.
I've attached a screen shot on how the applet looks like, before i move the file to my home directory.
Hence, the applet doesn't know the correct dir to load from.
I found the problem,
Before when you load the comic applet, it would download the comic or gif file to your home directory.
Now i found the gif file in the /tmp directory,
when i move it to my home dir, the applet works.
I've attached a screen shot on how the applet looks like,
before i move the file to my home directory.
Hence, the applet doesn't know the correct dir to load from.