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mkrishnan said:
Has anyone had the issue in Safari 2 that suddenly, all tabs will refuse to load new sites (just keep "trying" without timing out or failing or doing much of anything!)
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I used to get something similar but it's pretty much consistently confined to Macrumors. I just assumed it was the ongoing server issue. It's weird because it just keeps going forever and ever. :( My Safari's a completely fresh install, I didn't even bother dragging across my favourites (it's just Macrumors anyway ;) ). Are you saying you're getting the problem from all different sites?
 
My iMac won't take an IP from Ethernet. I have no clue why. Everything possible has been reset, plugged-in, etc. Worked fine under Panther in this configuration...

Clean install OS 10.4 and OS 9, two partitions, HFSX and HFS+ respectively.
 
mad jew said:
I used to get something similar but it's pretty much consistently confined to Macrumors. I just assumed it was the ongoing server issue. It's weird because it just keeps going forever and ever. :( My Safari's a completely fresh install, I didn't even bother dragging across my favourites (it's just Macrumors anyway ;) ). Are you saying you're getting the problem from all different sites?
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I tried this one more time, and what I found out was very interesting. I don't know if it is limited to this site, but it seems to be consistent with this site. I haven't tried disabling pithhelmet to see if it's involved:

1) I open several pages in tabs, which load fine, including MR
2) I open a new tab, and navigate to dealcoupons.com
3) The dealcoupons page does *not* load or timeout -- it just acts as if it is trying to load. After this, I can switch back to the other tabs, but none of them will successfully navigate anywhere. I can even close the dealcoupons tab, but no tab will navigate anywhere.
4) While this is happening, I can navigate to the same pages that won't load in FF
5) If I quit Safari, it typically takes a long time trying to quit, and eventually produces a "closed unexpectedly" box. The error report is long and drawn out, but the exception is always the following, and it is always thread zero that crashed:

Code: 
Exception:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes:      KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xc4000000

Can anyone else please give this a shot in their Safari and see if it also happens to them?
 
I'm just posting to verify that this problem does NOT occur if PithHelmet (which I've never used, and personally don't have a use for) isn't installed.
 
wrldwzrd89 said:
I'm just posting to verify that this problem does NOT occur if PithHelmet (which I've never used, and personally don't have a use for) isn't installed.
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Thanks for that. :p ;) :D

Hmmm...so many choices. So at the moment, I set my default back to Firefox and added it back to the dock. We shall have to see.

And may I insert a rant at this point about stupid programs that install Opera in some hidden part of the computer so that I have at least two copies of Opera in my list of possible default browsers? I know one of them came from Photoshop Elements. Grrr.....
 
Network Issues

First, I am annoyed as all get out that Tiger still doesn't apply one's default Finder window settings when connecting to a SMB share...argh!

I don't know if the bug of Keychain not storing a network share login password is still there.

Finally, it is extremely frustrating that Apple could not have introduced a Cisco-blessed VPN client (until an official release from Cisco).

It's issues like this that perpetuate the (mis) conception that Apple is not a good enterprise player. After I demonstrate truly awesome technologies like Spotlight to my colleagues (and they are suitably impressed), my efforts to make OS X a supported platform in my organization get stalled or set back by issues like lack of group authentication VPN client, inability to index Entourage, etc.. In the Windows world, we are always hesitant to try a .0 release of a product; I'd like to think that road is less bumpy with Apple. Though Tiger is a vastly superior desktop OS, Apple needs to pay more attention to its fit in the enterprise if it ever wants to get beyond 2% market share and marginalization.

Some good information:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1813445,00.asp
 
I keep getting a spinning beach ball when I open mail. This has only been happening recently. Also, I don't know if this is tiger related but when I drag a movie clip to idisk it downloads almost all of it but it stops and say 5 seconds remaing. When I force quit, it clears my desktop!! all the icons on the desktop disappear, such as the hardrive icon....I restart and everythings back to normal... :confused:
 
No way to tab open QT 7 windows

I hope that this is only something wrong with my QT 7, but I use to be able to cycle (tab) through my open QT windows... and now I can't. Do you think this a bug, a discontinued feature, or just my mac?
 
My bugs / Peeves

In decreasing order of importance:

1. The other night I tried out the Pages preview disk and typed up a new version of my CV. Saved as normal PDF (1.3) on Desktop. Opened PDF in Preview: From time to time the rendering of the PDF would be mangled; usually it was spaces and numbers that were rendered incorrectly. It could be due to having an older copy already loaded in Preview or something; I didn't play too much to nail down the situation where this occurs, but it does occur. Quitting Preview and trying again solves the problem, so I don't imagine it's a Pages thing.

2. Pages... This isn't officially part of Tiger, but as the trial CD came out with it... I open a new document for my CV, and import a Windows copy of my CV in another window. Am doing some copy/pasting and applying new formats. Pages was seriously beachballing on this (1.2Ghz iBook, 1.25Gig of RAM). Save new document as a Pages document. Try to reopen, and find an error message about a missing font "Wingdings" which must have persisted somehow from the Cut/Paste of the text of the Word version. I imagine this was embedded in formatting somewhere. The only way to rectify it was to open yet another new document and copy/paste the original into the new, which does not suffer this problem anymore. Weird, since copy/paste was what caused the issue in the first place.

3. Mail.app rules: On my 1024x768 screen, the rule that is included for mail from Apple corp scrolls off the bottom of the screen, and it is impossible to access the controls at the bottom. The only way I could cure this was to delete a rule (I don't get mail from Apple's Japan division) in order to shorten the window. This really should have been caught by their QA processes.

4. Mail.app rules: Not so much a bug, but a shortcoming. It seems to be impossible to create a rule or rules that do the following:

Mail matches rule:
Copy message to a mailbox, mark it read and do nothing else.
Also put the message in the inbox, leave it unread, and change its colour.

Basically it should be possible to execute different rules on the copied message than the one that is destined for the inbox. This would make automated (selective) saving of messages much less messy, as I really hate having to manually mark my saved folder as read all the time.

5. Spotlight: Spotlight should not automatically index every volume it can see. I plugged in my external one day and noticed that Spotlight was
"blinking", only to find out that it was starting to index my backups disk. It should default to only indexing the boot volume and asking about other volumes.
 
Another bug - generic icons in "Recent Items.." menu

Another annoying bug....

All of the documents/applications in my "Recent Items..." have generic icons (see attachment).
 

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Fonts disabled after installation

I forgot to post this after installation...

Did anyone else have Tiger disable third-party fonts after installation? This wasn't earth-shattering, except for having to re-add all my fonts manually.
 
Diomedes said:
All of the documents/applications in my "Recent Items..." have generic icons (see attachment).
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That's strange.... FWIW, mine don't (they have their proper icons). Have you tried the usual (repair permissions and reboot)?
 
Diomedes said:
I forgot to post this after installation...

Did anyone else have Tiger disable third-party fonts after installation? This wasn't earth-shattering, except for having to re-add all my fonts manually.
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Which kind of install did you do? I would expect third-party fonts to be missing if you did a clean install or an archive and install, because you'd be creating brand new System and Library folders.

If you did an update install, or the fonts were personal (installed under your own home folder), then I am indeed puzzled.
 
Diomedes said:
Another annoying bug....

All of the documents/applications in my "Recent Items..." have generic icons (see attachment).
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Mine have scrambled icons-- and I'm not even on Tiger! :) Word documents with iMovie icons, pictures with photoshop icons (they aren't supposed to), etc. It's funny but at the same time kinda annoying. I'm gonna hope Tiger fixes it, or I'm just not going to care like I have been.

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Mechcozmo said:
Mine have scrambled icons-- and I'm not even on Tiger! :) Word documents with iMovie icons, pictures with photoshop icons (they aren't supposed to), etc. It's funny but at the same time kinda annoying. I'm gonna hope Tiger fixes it, or I'm just not going to care like I have been.

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That bug has been in all versions of Panther. So far, I haven't seen it in Tiger.
 
Has anyone seen their dock get reset on reboot? At at least one point, changes to my dock "took" -- but the last couple times I rebooted, changes I made got undone. For instance, I added Goliath and removed Firefox, and on reboot Goliath was gone and FF was back. Hmm...maybe it's just an FF plug-in virus, and now that I *want* FF on my dock, it'll treat me right. :D

I've had two system freezes so far... *sobs* One was during iTunes playback, and the other was during a reduce noise in PSE3. Adding two purposeful reboots (repair permissions, etc), I've never had uptime of more than half a week on Tiger. :rolleyes:
 
I discovered an issue with Quicktime 7 yesterday...

I wanted to record a few audio clips from an external source directly with QuickTime Player Pro, no need for big gear in this case...

So I opened a new window for recording audio. It showed that it got a signal and when choosing a volume > 0 you could hear the source on my monitors.

Cool... so I started the recording and everything looked/sounded fine during recording.

BUT after recording I tried to play back the clip and all I got was very loud digital noise. Recording in every other app worked just fine. QT7 seems to shred the digital information when writing it to the HD.

Weird and actually annoying, because this recording feature in QT Player 7 could become very handy sometimes...

groovebuster
 
THE FINDER DOESN'T WORK.

Whenever I right-click on something, Finder crashes. I have trashed the preferences, restarted the system and repaired permissions. That and the ridiculously long time my Powerbook now takes to fall asleep really make me think Appled overcharged for this Public Beta.
 
As I've posted in other threads, big issues with Quicktime 7. I cannot play streaming media from our streaming server using clients with Quicktime 7. Sound works, but no picture...just a white screen.

Plus, Safari doesn't render pages with links to Quicktime movies properly (see attached photos). The one on the left is how they SHOULD look; the one on the right is how Safari renders them (pictures are incorrect).
 

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mkrishnan said:
Has anyone seen their dock get reset on reboot? At at least one point, changes to my dock "took" -- but the last couple times I rebooted, changes I made got undone. For instance, I added Goliath and removed Firefox, and on reboot Goliath was gone and FF was back. Hmm...maybe it's just an FF plug-in virus, and now that I *want* FF on my dock, it'll treat me right. :D

I've had two system freezes so far... *sobs* One was during iTunes playback, and the other was during a reduce noise in PSE3. Adding two purposeful reboots (repair permissions, etc), I've never had uptime of more than half a week on Tiger. :rolleyes:
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I've had my dock reset twice. The first time, I thought it was something I did wrong or because I told Dashboard to reset and it ignored the changes to the dock. The second time, though, I just rebooted and it moved the Dashboard icon back to the left side and took out my Eclipse icon.

Also, it would be nice if there were some way to close Dashboard widgets without going to the "add widgets" plus sign. A Command-click on a Widget should activate the close icon or something. The current way of getting rid of widgets is right up there with "Click Start to Shut Down." I don't know if that counts as a bug, though.
 
Applespider said:
Holding option while over the widget will bring up the x close button
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Nice! Did you notice, well, at least on my iBook, if you let go of the mouse and press option, the (x) will not appear until you move the mouse slightly, even if its already over a widget? Interesting. But anyway, this option thing is good stuff to know! Thanks! :)
 
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