Merde: So I upgraded to Leopard

So I upgraded to Leopard

By Matthew on March 16, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)

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?

Categories: Review

Tags: Adium, Camino, Coda, Flash 9, iChat, LastFMHelper, Leopard, OS X, Panic, Safari, Transmit, Transparency, Unison, upgrade