Opening the asset store in Unity is extremely unresponsive. It's so slow that it's just about unuseable. The webpage for it works just fine for me but in Unity it's pretty much useless. Apparently it is a common issue for other people using Unity 4.0 and I don't think Unity has even said anything about it. I haven't found a fix for it.
This is a problem because I want to purchase Playmaker and I also want to download the Mecanim example scenes from the store so I can work with Playmaker's own Mecanim demos.
My questions are: does the in-Unity asset store have to be working for me to install and use Playmaker and is there anywhere on the web I can download the Mecanim example scenes?