When i Press tools the arduino software freezes for about 10 sec

[mhmdbakri]

Iam using Arduino MEGA 2560
Arduino 1.0.3 on Windows 8 64-bit
also uploading the code takes a while

[cmaglie]

This is a duplicate of #200

there is an outstanding fix that here:

http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,141797.0.html

would you like to try it and report back if this works for you?

[cmaglie]

Closing as duplicate of #200.