Seriously? While the idea of of a streamlined menu bar activity monitor is interesting, it seems like more effort has gone into trying to make the user feel "oh no, my computer will blow up if I don't install this!"

More buggy update fun...just when I thought 4.3.1 had cleanly updated, I noticed that the *documentation* for the iOS 5.1 SDK didn't install, with an error icon instead. (It gives me an "access denied for download" error if I retry.)

The rest of my components and documentation updated fine after entering my login info... This isn't even the SDK (that's included in the base update), but just the documentation for it!

Guess I'll try installing that package again in a day or two and see if it works then. I bet someone at Apple just screwed up the permissions on their servers, since it's a new package and not just an update.

This looks neat for 10.5/10.6 users who want Launchpad, but it really needs a name that isn't also "Launchpad." (Probably best to keep Apple's lawyers from beating at your door...)

Spotlight, I hardly knew ye. Honestly, I'd disable Spotlight indexing entirely, but Mail.app searches depend on it! (I have everything but /Users excluded, actually...)

I use the terminal heavily, which probably helps as far as not needing Spotlight; I rarely use the Finder, preferring to use the terminal to move files and such for the most part. Combine that with Quicksilver, and hey, I can do almost everything from the keyboard! Yay!

I think my favorite feature (hard to pick, from the thousands...) is the use of triggers to run scripts. I have a few f-key cobos bound to launch various terminals/ssh sessions/etc through the magic of Quicksilver triggers.

For the average user, it's still a great launcher at the VERY least, and I'm guessing most users will get more than that out of it. Even on a pretty recent system with an SSD, I find results pop up faster and better with Quicksilver than with Spotlight... No, it doesn't index random documents as well as Spotlight does, but it's not meant to do that. The two co-exist just fine. :)

The one negative is that for various features, you do need a good bit of advanced configuration. But, hey, it does a ton of stuff even without any advanced config. I've had several friends who used to be primarily GUI-happy but now use Quicksilver at least to launch stuff...and there are far more advanced features than that available, even to the novice. The iTunes, Address Book, etc, plug-ins are all worthwhile.

Oh yeah, and it's free. For one of the very first things I install on any new Mac, I can't complain about that!

"Browser" doesn't look very appealing, enough so that I don't feel like downloading and running it. (The name, to start with. And the overall look/feel of the description give me serious privacy concerns.)

But what caught my eye was "Porn Private Mode." Seriously? PORN Private Mode?

There are many uses for private mode other than looking at porn. (Not that there's anything wrong with using private mode for that either, but still...)

I've found Safari Cookies to be a wonderful add-on, especially the auto-removal of cookies from sites that aren't in my history/bookmarks anymore.

However, Safari Cookies is now causing Safari to take massive amounts of RAM. I'm also running Glims and Safari AdBlocker, both 64-bit under 10.6. With just those two enabled, Safari tends to grow to around 300MB - 350MB of active RAM at the most and stay there long-term.

If I enable Safari Cookies, Safari keeps growing without bounds. When I finally decided to uninstall it, Safari was using 1.75GB of RAM, plus there was 1.5GB of swap in use that was freed when I quit Safari. With Glims and Safari AdBlocker, Safari doesn't eat into swap at all.

I've tried with Glims and Safari AdBlocker disabled, and the same behavior persists. I tried turning off auto-manage temporarily, but that didn't help. Any ideas?

Safari 4 Beta 5528.17 that came out alongside 10.5.7 doesn't seem to work with the latest Saft. I have a feeling that the developer will quite likely fix this in the next few hours as usual (kudos to him for being so quick with updates!), but if anyone knows how to force it to load (if it will) that'd be useful. (Can't find the Safari version string in the Saft files, etc.)

I'd like SSHKeychain to not display itself at all in the dock or menu bar. This worked fine in 0.8.1 by setting it to Dock-only and setting LSUIElement to 1 in the Info.plist. However, in 0.8.2, LSUIElement reverts to 0 and the dock icon shows up anyways. Locking the Info.plist causes the app to quit after a few seconds.

Does anyone know how I might fully hide SSHKeychain without mucking with the source?

(I have to add, this is one of the most useful pieces of MacOS freeware out there!)

Applied the update. After my system had been up for about half an hour, all sound output stopped working. Any application that tried to output sound would freeze and require a manual kill. Couldn't even get to the Sound prefpane. I tried restarting coreaudiod, no effect. I slept and unslept the machine, no effect. I eventually rebooted, and the problem resolved.

I have never seen this happen before this update, so I suspect it may be linked since it happened right after I updated. Has anyone else had odd audio freezes like this?

I did zap my PRAM after the firmware update.