I just did the update flawlessly and a lot of the hanging seems to have gone away. Fast user switching still hangs a lot. Everything good or better than before. I liked Tiger and like it better now.
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OS X 10.4.1 Now Available
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Ok, not only have they not fixed ichat's proxy support, the mail.app hiding after a restart, the graphical glitches in both Safari and iCal but modems (whoever uses them) are still not usable, though an Apple person has admitted that there is a problem... great.
Burning had severe issues, which I'll test later but my guess is this hasn't improved since it is not in the list.
This update does not necessarily suck, but it's half-assed. Apple get your act together.
Burning had severe issues, which I'll test later but my guess is this hasn't improved since it is not in the list.
This update does not necessarily suck, but it's half-assed. Apple get your act together.
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Something has been changing my preference settings for certain applications lately. It will ask me if I want to accept the changes without mentioning what the changes are.
I accepted the one for Safari and it added a few websites to my bar. Ones I didn't have or want. Not cool.
The update seems fine, maybe fixed things I didn't know were problems yet.
I accepted the one for Safari and it added a few websites to my bar. Ones I didn't have or want. Not cool.
The update seems fine, maybe fixed things I didn't know were problems yet.
Ran the download installer on a 2X2.0 G5 (first gen), and everything is fine. The only fixes I've noticed so far is that my scroll wheel now works in the Dictionary widget (very nice) and that switching users is now back to the speedy and smooth transitions of 10.3 (for whatever reason, it took a couple of seconds to start and the transition effect occasionally jerked a bit under 10.4.0). I really haven't had any significant problems with 10.4 myself, so I wasn't looking for any big fixes.
There has been one small glitch, however: I have the ATI extra monitor goodies installed, and the Monitor app seems to crash after a user switch once in a while. That's probably an ATI issue, though. The one other oddity I've had under 10.4 is also probably not an Apple issue: when I restart (and only then) my mouse tracking is ridiculously fast until I change (and then put back) the setting in the Mouse control panel. The Logitech panel has always been a little funky though, so I blame it (doesn't happen if I don't use it, of course).
There has been one small glitch, however: I have the ATI extra monitor goodies installed, and the Monitor app seems to crash after a user switch once in a while. That's probably an ATI issue, though. The one other oddity I've had under 10.4 is also probably not an Apple issue: when I restart (and only then) my mouse tracking is ridiculously fast until I change (and then put back) the setting in the Mouse control panel. The Logitech panel has always been a little funky though, so I blame it (doesn't happen if I don't use it, of course).
Diatribe said:Ok, not only have they not fixed ichat's proxy support, the mail.app hiding after a restart, the graphical glitches in both Safari and iCal but modems (whoever uses them) are still not usable, though an Apple person has admitted that there is a problem... great.
Burning had severe issues, which I'll test later but my guess is this hasn't improved since it is not in the list.
This update does not necessarily suck, but it's half-assed. Apple get your act together.
The safari bug was the exact bug i wished they could've fixed. It's not that bad as it is extremely annoying.
What? After all of the public hand-wringing over the potential evil widget download "crisis" and not a soul has mentioned that Safari now issues a warning in 10.4.1 (even when the open "safe" files after downloading preference is checked) when downloading a widget?
How soon we forget lol.
How soon we forget lol.
Thank God! My system has been driving me crazy ever since I upgraded to Tiger. I conviced a friend to switch to a Mac and he went out and bought a top of the line G5 Powermac and two 20" inch displays. Luckily his system is running smoothly. Mine on the other hand has been hell for the past 2 weeks. I am looking forward to having a stable system again.
Mail's not hiding was my biggest gripe (that and auto-connecting to wireless networks wasn't working), but 1 of 2 ain't too bad.
BollywooD said:I use ClearDock, from the guys who make FruitMenu etc... it works fine under 10.4, 10.4.1
i prefered Transparent dock because it didn't need Application Enhancer (which can cause problems if you do audio work) to run.
they really should add it in the dock options, a seperate application is unnecessary.
Address Book Widget Issue Remains...
The Address Book widget still seems to not be consistently enclosing the Area Code in parentheses, even when everything appears properly in the Address Book itself.
The Address Book widget still seems to not be consistently enclosing the Area Code in parentheses, even when everything appears properly in the Address Book itself.
Works fine. Few things to say to all
Everything is great here, for this update. 15in Al PBook 1Ghz 512MB RAM Clean Install. Expose seems just fine. My scrollbars act normal. Widgets work fine, address book app and widget do not crash. My mail works fine, but then again I didn't do any importing. I use IMAP servers and gmail POP, so I didn't have to worry about it. I also don't use any plugins. But mail works.
1. Safari now ASKS if you are sure before downloading widgets (the widget "disaster" is squashed).
2. The system did take a while to boot up completely after updating. But I sat back and eventually it finished.
3. Don't go deleting system files like some people have already done, regarding the network files and folders. You may regret it later, and so far it's not causing any harm!
4. Also, I still can't search for invisible files, or files within invisible folders (usr, bin, etc, etc.) in the finder. If you know of a fix for this, please let me know.
Everything is great here, for this update. 15in Al PBook 1Ghz 512MB RAM Clean Install. Expose seems just fine. My scrollbars act normal. Widgets work fine, address book app and widget do not crash. My mail works fine, but then again I didn't do any importing. I use IMAP servers and gmail POP, so I didn't have to worry about it. I also don't use any plugins. But mail works.
1. Safari now ASKS if you are sure before downloading widgets (the widget "disaster" is squashed).
2. The system did take a while to boot up completely after updating. But I sat back and eventually it finished.
3. Don't go deleting system files like some people have already done, regarding the network files and folders. You may regret it later, and so far it's not causing any harm!
4. Also, I still can't search for invisible files, or files within invisible folders (usr, bin, etc, etc.) in the finder. If you know of a fix for this, please let me know.
This is puny update in my opinion. Why didn't they wait until they had a respectable number of fixes? Lightweights.
Just about to down load, wonder if it will make Final Cut Express HD less prone to random shutdown?
Got mine...
No problems on this side of the globe... but my download was only 19.4MB.... any ideas why it would be a lot smaller than the 37.7MB noted on the first post...
STILL get the bloody spinning beach ball of death when clicking on the bookmarks menu for the first time after opening Safari.... Come on Apple load the bookmarks into memory when the programme launches....
No problems on this side of the globe... but my download was only 19.4MB.... any ideas why it would be a lot smaller than the 37.7MB noted on the first post...
STILL get the bloody spinning beach ball of death when clicking on the bookmarks menu for the first time after opening Safari.... Come on Apple load the bookmarks into memory when the programme launches....
No problems here... just one oddity with Setup Assistant running again. I really wish Apple would fix and enable Q2DE. Just as a quick test, I ran Xbench with and without Q2DE... the biggest change by far and away was the text, going from a score of 150 or so to over 500, and it increased every time I ran the test. NICE.
huckleup said:
Yeah, I see now that the binary within AppleUSBOHCI.kext still has a date of March 26, so that's not promising. Surely we're not the only two people having USB problems?
In my case, it's a Quicksilver 733 MHz G4 PowerMac, just Apple keyboard and simple Logitech mouse (2-button + scroll). No third party drivers of any kind. Unless something was fixed in the kernel itself relating to this, I suppose I'll get my first 10.4.1 panic sometime in the next day or two...