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OS X 10.8.4 Build 12E47 Seeded to Developers
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No expectations
Do not expect Apple to Fix Mail by restoring rejection, send back....add a draft button.
Do not expect Apple to expand copy/paste, unchanged since about 1994.
Do not expect Apple to improve and quicken forced quit.
Do not expect Apple to speed up S L O W Safari.
Do not expect Apple to improve the week function of finding files
Do expect more things that interface with Twitter, Facebook, Cloud Storeage,
iPhone, iPad....stuff most people care nothing about.
Sorry.
Do not expect Apple to Fix Mail by restoring rejection, send back....add a draft button.
Do not expect Apple to expand copy/paste, unchanged since about 1994.
Do not expect Apple to improve and quicken forced quit.
Do not expect Apple to speed up S L O W Safari.
Do not expect Apple to improve the week function of finding files
Do expect more things that interface with Twitter, Facebook, Cloud Storeage,
iPhone, iPad....stuff most people care nothing about.
Sorry.
The cursor stops blinking, which makes me think its a redrawing issue.
Clicking doesn't help too much - you still get all kinds of rendering artefacts - chopped up bits of characters between lines and in empty space, double cursors, etc.
Like this one:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/16162261/
with a potential fix
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/16163178/
Apple services shutting down slowly for whatever reason. I ended up doing the method, but it was a temporary fix.
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Errr... Safari is snappier in this seed.
>_>;
Every build it gets faster. If you wanted it to be really fast, though, you'd use webkit nightly. It has an updater for OS X.
My current gen Mac Pro w/ ATI Radeon 5870 was all over the place w/ 12E40; scrolling stuttered, moving Finder/Safari/etc windows created ghosting, et al. I checked Quartz Debug, and noticed Quartz Extreme and GL were no longer enabled. I checked them both (again) in HW Acceleration and for some reason everything was back to good. Installing this update now.
Anyone else notice that bluetooth keyboard kext's don't load quick enough to use the keyboard to reset PRAM or option boot into other drives? No matter the Mac model/year, I have to keep a wired keyboard around. Isn't that odd given Apple's push for bluetooth keyboards? Is there something I'm missing?
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It appears that Apple is really pushing the envelop when it comes to testing; Safari has been upgraded to 6.0.5 so does that mean 10.9 will see 6.1 and shortly after a jump in version numbers to 7.x - kind of depressing IMHO that there are a tonne of features in the public source code of Webkit that haven't made their way into Safari but I'm sure there is a legitimate reason.
As for what others have been experiencing, I must be the luckiest man on earth but then again when 10.8.3 came out I did a clean install on my iMac and MacBook Pro with neither showing the problems that are present by some here; all I can suggest is maybe a clean install of OS X 10.8.3 and then work up from a clean base until the problem starts to appear and if a problem appears after installing an application or drive then it is time to contact the vendor to inform them about how their product is disrupting your work flow.
As for what others have been experiencing, I must be the luckiest man on earth but then again when 10.8.3 came out I did a clean install on my iMac and MacBook Pro with neither showing the problems that are present by some here; all I can suggest is maybe a clean install of OS X 10.8.3 and then work up from a clean base until the problem starts to appear and if a problem appears after installing an application or drive then it is time to contact the vendor to inform them about how their product is disrupting your work flow.
There have been some on here noting the performance issues with Safari on their Retina MacBook Pro but those performance issues having been addressed on the publicly available Webkit builds.
Which MacBook Pro are you using? I just got the Retina back in December, but on my 2010 MacBook Pro that I had before that, it would do the "random falling asleep" as well.
Not much has changed since the last build
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That Ferengi is incompetent... Die Mountain Lion Die...!!!
Now who wants to let go of their MBPs that are capable of Snow Leopard...?
Installed latest build onto my MacBook Air 2011 model, no issues. Bear in mind I have never had to do a clean install of the OS, and the system came with Lion when purchased then upgraded to 10.8 and then installed the developer builds after I registered - no major issues whatsoever.
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I just tried this in Safari Version 6.0.5 (8536.30.1) and it seems to be working just fine. The cursor actually stops blinking and stays solid so that you know the exact position of it. You can then click anywhere within the text box to move the cursor which will start blinking again if you zoom back out.
I just tried this in Safari Version 6.0.5 (8536.30.1) and it seems to be working just fine. The cursor actually stops blinking and stays solid so that you know the exact position of it. You can then click anywhere within the text box to move the cursor which will start blinking again if you zoom back out.
Improvements?
I don't know what kinds of improvements Apple is making with each beta. Those of you who are testing these betas, can you share your general opinion about the stability, graphics performance without violating your NDAs? 10.8.3 brought lots of improvements for me, but I still believe a bug related to mdworker or Spotlight indexing is still present in 10.8.3. It caused system lockups on my rMBP before, however booting it once in the Safe mode lockups disappeared. Though, Spotlight indexing related bugs has appeared now, e.g. when I download a PDF file using Safari's Download to Stack option, Spotlight refused to assign any date and size information to the PDF downloaded. After I restarted the rMBP, it went away. Apparently, there are changes to Unix in 10.8.3 as well. Some of the unix commands that worked well in 10.8.2, do not work anymore or have to modified slightly in 10.8.3, including the mdfind command for searching the files on my rMBP and defaults command for changing the certain system behaviour. Can anyone share thoughts on these...
I don't know what kinds of improvements Apple is making with each beta. Those of you who are testing these betas, can you share your general opinion about the stability, graphics performance without violating your NDAs? 10.8.3 brought lots of improvements for me, but I still believe a bug related to mdworker or Spotlight indexing is still present in 10.8.3. It caused system lockups on my rMBP before, however booting it once in the Safe mode lockups disappeared. Though, Spotlight indexing related bugs has appeared now, e.g. when I download a PDF file using Safari's Download to Stack option, Spotlight refused to assign any date and size information to the PDF downloaded. After I restarted the rMBP, it went away. Apparently, there are changes to Unix in 10.8.3 as well. Some of the unix commands that worked well in 10.8.2, do not work anymore or have to modified slightly in 10.8.3, including the mdfind command for searching the files on my rMBP and defaults command for changing the certain system behaviour. Can anyone share thoughts on these...
Except the cursor can't be moved by arrow keys while you are zoomed in. This would be indeed annoying for someone who zooms into the text fields.
Yes, but wouldn't it be great if they let us choose for this instead of pushing it down our throat? Perhaps a switch in the systems setting as I haven't had any problem at all with the fast close in the past.
Graphics drivers are always buggy, by definition
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All of these have been fixed for me in 10.8.3
Do you have the Apple software roadmap? Is there a rule that says after 10.9 they have to go to 11? Why not 10.10?
(No Spinal Tap references please)