Installed 10.3.3 on my external FW drive that I use to test stuff before putting on my main drives.
Boot time is *much* shorter, probably about 1/3d what it is under Jag on a 800 MHz FP iMac. Finder code was either recompiled, rewritten, or a combination of the two, because it's much snappier. Camino, Safari, and OmniWeb work fine.
Tomorrow comes what is for me, the acid test: Does 10.3.3 break FCE?
Just didn't have time today to putz with it. Tomorrow for sure.
I'm getting the feeling, "This is what Panther should have been when it came out", but I'll reserve judgment until I see what happens with Final Cut, which is notorious for not liking point software upgrades of either the OS, or of QuickTime.
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UPDATE
Seems the SU version of 10.3.3 hosed every file's permissions on my external FW drive. While the machine was not, repeat NOT, hosed, I could see where someone not as conscientious as me might have problems.
Moral of story: ALWAYS repair permissions after installing new software (especially an Apple operating system update!)
FWIW, the permissions utility was saying words to the effect of 'this file' is in group 99, should be 80; then it reset the permissions. If someone with a bit more Unix background could explain, I'd appreciate it.
Some of my contextual menu items in safari are replaced with "Localized String Not Found" If I select it, it still performs the task it should. I know what most of them are from muscle memory but it would be nice if it said "copy" instead of "Localized String Not Found" I even re-installed Safari, I am about to try and delete the plist and see what happens \
Apple says that "Open" is replaced with "Choose" in the open dialog boxes. In what app(s) is this applied to? All my open dialogs still have the OPEN button flashing...
Err fixed my problem. Apparently some of the contextual menu items are in the localized file in the webkit framework instead of safari... For what ever reason my webkit.framework did not get updated.
Apple says that "Open" is replaced with "Choose" in the open dialog boxes. In what app(s) is this applied to? All my open dialogs still have the OPEN button flashing...
Perhaps this is the case for certain dialog boxes where you select a folder. I thought these already displayed "choose" though...
On a related note, those power bars shown in the APC Preference Pane are also used for Bluetooth battery strength for my wireless keyboard and mouse.
Since updating to 10.3.3, I can no longer use my external DVD player (DVD-R/RW) to play DVD movies. Reading data on data dvs is fine, and I can see the movie DVDs mount on the desktop. The Apple DVD player gives an initialization error. The brand of the external firewire player does not make any difference. I am wondering if this is by design?
Installed on iMac G3 400 and no problems at all. Dont see any improvements that I can tell.
I do suggest repairing permissions right after the update. It had to repair something I had never seen before. I always repair permissions after an upgrade.
By the way, if you want to speed up safari I strongly suggest downlaoding pithhelmet, which gets rid of those annoying animated gifs and moving ads.
Panther is still flaky. The key commands bug is still there. I was just in Finder, I hit Command-W, and nothing. Repeatedly. Had to mouse the menu, then it would work. That bug is kind of rare at least but just a weird annoying little thing.
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Originally posted by hypoluxa
I installed it, and no weird problems to speak of.
I second that.
See here: Battery Issues w/ 10.3.3
Boot time is *much* shorter, probably about 1/3d what it is under Jag on a 800 MHz FP iMac. Finder code was either recompiled, rewritten, or a combination of the two, because it's much snappier. Camino, Safari, and OmniWeb work fine.
Tomorrow comes what is for me, the acid test: Does 10.3.3 break FCE?
Just didn't have time today to putz with it. Tomorrow for sure.
I'm getting the feeling, "This is what Panther should have been when it came out", but I'll reserve judgment until I see what happens with Final Cut, which is notorious for not liking point software upgrades of either the OS, or of QuickTime.
============================
UPDATE
Seems the SU version of 10.3.3 hosed every file's permissions on my external FW drive. While the machine was not, repeat NOT, hosed, I could see where someone not as conscientious as me might have problems.
Moral of story: ALWAYS repair permissions after installing new software (especially an Apple operating system update!)
FWIW, the permissions utility was saying words to the effect of 'this file' is in group 99, should be 80; then it reset the permissions. If someone with a bit more Unix background could explain, I'd appreciate it.
Some of my contextual menu items in safari are replaced with "Localized String Not Found" If I select it, it still performs the task it should. I know what most of them are from muscle memory but it would be nice if it said "copy" instead of "Localized String Not Found" I even re-installed Safari, I am about to try and delete the plist and see what happens
EDIT: Changed VB to vB...
Originally posted by SilentEchoes
I just noticed, the VB buttons on here do not work either.
VB? Visual Basic? o.O?
Originally posted by Proud iBook Owner 2k2
VB? Visual Basic? o.O?
err no the vBullitin code.
Thank you Pacifist.
Originally posted by Proud iBook Owner 2k2
Apple says that "Open" is replaced with "Choose" in the open dialog boxes. In what app(s) is this applied to? All my open dialogs still have the OPEN button flashing...
Perhaps this is the case for certain dialog boxes where you select a folder. I thought these already displayed "choose" though...
On a related note, those power bars shown in the APC Preference Pane are also used for Bluetooth battery strength for my wireless keyboard and mouse.
I do suggest repairing permissions right after the update. It had to repair something I had never seen before. I always repair permissions after an upgrade.
By the way, if you want to speed up safari I strongly suggest downlaoding pithhelmet, which gets rid of those annoying animated gifs and moving ads.
Originally posted by kraig911
I am about to just go for it and install it anyone have any problems?
i did it and it works oh so goode
Originally posted by Aquatic
Hide bug is still there too. Preview decided right now to stop responding to Hide in the menu or Cmd-H.
yeah, just found that out with safari and iTunes, dammit i hate that bug, oh well, that's what exposé's for, right?