I don't see Preview in this list of fixes. It is so broken in Snow Leopard. I hope we don't have to wait for 10.7 to get Preview working properly again.
I received Snow Leopard in my Christmas stocking, so I don't have nearly as much experience as some of you guys. Having said that, the only problem I've encountered is a tendency for the mouse (a mighty mouse: yeah, I know) to lose its mind upon being awakened from sleep mode. Other that that, everything is pretty slick. BTW, I use Safari with click-to-flash and have encountered no problems.
I don't see Preview in this list of fixes. It is so broken in Snow Leopard. I hope we don't have to wait for 10.7 to get Preview working properly again.
The word search function, in particular. It now takes about 20 times longer to find word instances in documents, and it still misses instances that Preview in Leopard finds. Sometimes the search literally never ends, so you can't figure out if it's done. Searching for strings, which used to be easy, is now utterly hopeless. Also, Preview used to automatically inherit Spotlight search terms and find them in your documents. So nice, but no more. In the process of all this feature and performance subtraction, Preview became a massive RAM hog. They took something that worked virtually perfectly in Leopard and turned it into a complete disaster.
I have had the iTunes hangs during movie play back so I hope this is what they are addressing.
As far as Safari goes I've not had crashes there but I use Click to Flash which is great.
Actually what I'm really hoping for is that the system moves even more processing over to older GPUs. This would give my early 2008 MBP a nice boost one last time.
More than anything though I hope this new release leaks more info about new machines coming. On the other hand we might not see this release until the new hardware comes out. Apple is probably targetting the end of the month there.
I have one complain about SL and one only, and that is: FIX THE START UP TIME!!!!
I love the shutdown time on SL, and the start up time of Tiger, please combine the two Apple, cause right now my dad's crappy vista starts up faster then my SL macbook
I have had the iTunes hangs during movie play back so I hope this is what they are addressing.
As far as Safari goes I've not had crashes there but I use Click to Flash which is great.
Actually what I'm really hoping for is that the system moves even more processing over to older GPUs. This would give my early 2008 MBP a nice boost one last time.
Dave.
Right now OpenCL only supports nVidia 9400 and newer as well as the newest ATI chips?
I don't see Preview in this list of fixes. It is so broken in Snow Leopard. I hope we don't have to wait for 10.7 to get Preview working properly again.
Not sure what you have in mind. I have a gripe about Preview - the sidebar containing the thumbnails is unnecessarily wide and cannot be narrowed. I translate from PDF documents displayed in Preview to a Word document to the right and lose too much screen real estate to the sidebar (which is useful for navigation now that page numbers no longer appear at the top of Preview)
i'm surprised not to see anyone asking adobe to fix flash. granted, this is appleinsider, but i think it's presumptuous to blame apple for flash's woes.
also, 'snowtard' sounds to me like teck stud (mactripper).
I've noticed a lot of hanging in iTunes, especially when it first opens and the beach ball appears Safari is also very unstable when accessing the Top Sites page.
The absolute WORST program stability-wise is iChat. Sometimes it doesn't connect and it often crashes during chats. Anybody else have problems with iChat?
Snow Leopard has had fewer crashed than Leopard for me. Finder and Quicktime have been the biggest culprits, and the iPhone simulator in XCode has some weird delays/behavior also.
You know about the only thing that I can think of that I DO want is the ability to sort folders first. I dislike having to wade through folders and files mixed together.
I wonder if there are any third party plug-ins that do this. I know I can sort by 'type' but it's not an ideal workaround when you get to the files.
i'm surprised not to see anyone asking adobe to fix flash.
I think the "fixing" of Flash is so far beyond the realm of possibility that it doesn't even occur to anyone anymore. It's mainly for one reason, too: we're not using Windows like Adobe wants us to.
I think the "fixing" of Flash is so far beyond the realm of possibility that it doesn't even occur to anyone anymore. It's mainly for one reason, too: we're not using Windows like Adobe wants us to.
Hopefully it will become obsolete with HTML5. It's an abomination...
What is FileSync? A quick google search revealed what looked to be a third party utility for synchronizing folders/files, but I don't see anything about FileSync as something that is part of the OS.
I've had problems since 10.6 with the Finder in certain situations... I'm wondering if this might resolve those problems...
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I don't see Preview in this list of fixes. It is so broken in Snow Leopard. I hope we don't have to wait for 10.7 to get Preview working properly again.
broken? how?
broken? how?
The word search function, in particular. It now takes about 20 times longer to find word instances in documents, and it still misses instances that Preview in Leopard finds. Sometimes the search literally never ends, so you can't figure out if it's done. Searching for strings, which used to be easy, is now utterly hopeless. Also, Preview used to automatically inherit Spotlight search terms and find them in your documents. So nice, but no more. In the process of all this feature and performance subtraction, Preview became a massive RAM hog. They took something that worked virtually perfectly in Leopard and turned it into a complete disaster.
As far as Safari goes I've not had crashes there but I use Click to Flash which is great.
Actually what I'm really hoping for is that the system moves even more processing over to older GPUs. This would give my early 2008 MBP a nice boost one last time.
More than anything though I hope this new release leaks more info about new machines coming. On the other hand we might not see this release until the new hardware comes out. Apple is probably targetting the end of the month there.
Dave.
I love the shutdown time on SL, and the start up time of Tiger, please combine the two Apple, cause right now my dad's crappy vista starts up faster then my SL macbook
I have had the iTunes hangs during movie play back so I hope this is what they are addressing.
As far as Safari goes I've not had crashes there but I use Click to Flash which is great.
Actually what I'm really hoping for is that the system moves even more processing over to older GPUs. This would give my early 2008 MBP a nice boost one last time.
Dave.
Right now OpenCL only supports nVidia 9400 and newer as well as the newest ATI chips?
I don't see Preview in this list of fixes. It is so broken in Snow Leopard. I hope we don't have to wait for 10.7 to get Preview working properly again.
Not sure what you have in mind. I have a gripe about Preview - the sidebar containing the thumbnails is unnecessarily wide and cannot be narrowed. I translate from PDF documents displayed in Preview to a Word document to the right and lose too much screen real estate to the sidebar (which is useful for navigation now that page numbers no longer appear at the top of Preview)
also, 'snowtard' sounds to me like teck stud (mactripper).
The absolute WORST program stability-wise is iChat. Sometimes it doesn't connect and it often crashes during chats.
Flash has been crashing in Safari for me as well, more so than usual.
K
See this:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/12/2...2010?art_pos=4
I use Firefox and installed NoScript.
I wonder if there are any third party plug-ins that do this. I know I can sort by 'type' but it's not an ideal workaround when you get to the files.
i'm surprised not to see anyone asking adobe to fix flash.
I think the "fixing" of Flash is so far beyond the realm of possibility that it doesn't even occur to anyone anymore. It's mainly for one reason, too: we're not using Windows like Adobe wants us to.
I think the "fixing" of Flash is so far beyond the realm of possibility that it doesn't even occur to anyone anymore. It's mainly for one reason, too: we're not using Windows like Adobe wants us to.
Hopefully it will become obsolete with HTML5. It's an abomination...
I've had problems since 10.6 with the Finder in certain situations... I'm wondering if this might resolve those problems...
All hail 10.6.3, Our Second Bug Fix Release, and his Heir, 10.6.4, The One That Is Usable!
Flash has been crashing in Safari for me as well, more so than usual.
K
What version of Flash?
Well, it took a few months, but at least now Mac-fans openly call SL buggy, and don't blame it on '3rd party developers.'
All hail 10.6.3, Our Second Bug Fix Release, and his Heir, 10.6.4, The One That Is Usable!
A quick search of this thread and it appears you are the only one that called it 'buggy'.
With thousands of lines of code, bugs are inevitable. Overall I would consider SL to be relatively bug free given it's a major release.