So I upgraded to Leopard

A cou­ple weeks ago I finally upgraded to Leop­ard. I wanted to doc­u­ment some prob­lems I’ve had.

Trans­parency
I have a G4 Power­book and the dock and menubar trans­parency do not work. I tried edit­ing some plist files, but that didn’t work. It actu­ally really messed stuff up. I had to boot into sin­gle user mode and fix it. Don’t do this. Trans­parency is not worth it.

LastFMHelper
Force quit that sucka in Activ­ity Mon­i­tor (located in Appli­ca­tions > Util­i­ties). Makes my CPU run high. Quit­ting this won’t affect Last.fm app in any way. From what I gather, its main pur­pose is to auto­mat­i­cally rec­og­nize your iPod when you plug it in.

Adium
Adium got painfully slow. I tried dif­fer­ent Mes­sage Styles, but it still hung a lot. It stressed me out for it not to keep up with my typ­ing. No fun. I love Adium, but I’m back using iChat. iChat isn’t awful, espe­cially in Leop­ard because it has tabs.

Camino
Camino! My love! Slowed down a lot since I upgraded. I feel so sad about this. Hav­ing a bunch of tabs open makes my fan turn on. I still use it occa­sion­ally, but Safari is now my default browser. I do like Find being in the same win­dow and also find-as-you-type in Safari 3.

Flash
Infa­mously bad in Leop­ard. Works on 90% of things in Safari. I had to unin­stall and renin­stall even though I was up-to-date in Tiger. Per­sis­tent prob­lems include Google Street View (not all of Google Maps), the audio player for Tum­blr, and a few oth­ers I can’t think of right now. These both work in Camino though, which is weird. Other weird things, watch­ing Fox online only works in Safari, but watch­ing NBC only works on Camino.

MAXIMUM EDIT:
DOY! My prob­lems with Flash were all my own. I tried going through the process of unin­stalling and rein­stalling Flash again and I found that the Adobe site showed be the INTEL ver­sion instead of the PPC ver­sion. So I down­loaded the PPC ver­sion and every­thing works well. My bad. Sorry.

Panic
On a pos­i­tive note, Coda, Trans­mit, and Uni­son work per­fectly. I was really wor­ried about these because they are so much a part of my daily com­puter exis­tence (apart from web brows­ing and IM).

These prob­lems are not all encom­pass­ing. They are few and far between. I would def­i­nitely rec­om­mend Leop­ard. It works bet­ter on newer com­put­ers, but what doesn’t?