flash player 11 beta SEEMS to've solved that issue for me
― ILX Point Never (diamonddave85), Monday, 8 August 2011 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
Lion kinda killed my battery life compared to Snow Leopard, but I think that was mostly ClickToFlash no longer working in Safari. I trashed Flash this morning and things are already better.
― Millsner, Monday, 8 August 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://hackemist.com/SafariOmnibar/
― dan selzer, Monday, 8 August 2011 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
what's a good replacement for Click2Flash for Lion? I'm hating all the autoloading flash again.
― Euler, Monday, 8 August 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
there's a click2flash safari extension
― ILX Point Never (diamonddave85), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I just grabbed it. Works well, but I miss the little gear menu that allowed whitelisting entire pages/domains.
― Millsner, Monday, 8 August 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
just bought my parents a 21.5" iMac but nice move apple, can't universally set the system font size to be bigger (they're old, you see.)
any ideas beyond manually setting the font settings of each app they would use? (which is only like 2 or 3 but the menu bar still has small font.)
some people recommend tinkertools - is that good?
is flash safe to install now?
― dayo, Monday, 8 August 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
dayo: my mom has vision problems too, bigtime, and she just uses the magnifying feature under the universal access control panel
― a chaos of crevasses at cape crozier (gbx), Monday, 8 August 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
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installed by default and buggy as hell on lion.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 8 August 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I've looked at that, not ideal obviously ("you never had to do this in windows!") but maybe they'll learn
nice that most browsers have a minimum font setting now, that helps
also lol that this hueg bright monitor is giving me a headache within 15 mins of using it
― dayo, Monday, 8 August 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
when i say lion is slow, i am talking about shit like useless new finder animations and long pauses when switching between windows.
also it's frustrating that my trackpad thinks i'm doing one of the 800 new multitouch gestures when i'm just working fast
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 8 August 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
thanks for the click2flash tip! I have it working now again, thank goodness.
― Euler, Monday, 8 August 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
hmm setting the screen rez to 1600x900 makes it better and doesn't crapify the monitor TOO much
― dayo, Monday, 8 August 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
I keep command-Q quitting finder, and all of my desktop icons disappear and the menu bar disappears, and it takes 5-10 seconds before they show up again. is this ... intended?
― smells like PENGUINS (remy bean), Monday, 8 August 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
wow the apple store's website really shits the bed when you force it beyond a font size of 12
― dayo, Monday, 8 August 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
so during the grand demonstration, the imac froze from a webpage w/ flash loaded
thanks adobe
thought briefly about downgrading to snow leopard, but the idea of having to download 4.5 gigs over DSL in case I want to go back to lion was intimidating
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
I feel my control over my mac is slowly being eroded as steve jobs stamps on my face with his white new balance 991s forever
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
have had very few problems with lion
― markers, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
I'm still struggling to think of one single thing about Lion that made it worth upgrading from SL.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
new mail app
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
mission control is kind of bogus as is launchpad which is dashboard for apps? didn't notice anything else tbh except that I can't put lion on any physical media that I own
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
waiting for the ars review
it's already out?
― caek, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
High-resolution cursorIn Lion, the cursor is crisp and sharp at larger sizes.
cool, Apple
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars
oh neat ty
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
Yearless birthdaysYou can now add birthdays to your contacts without including a year.
! fuck yes
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
didn't notice anything else tbh except that I can't put lion on any physical media that I own
You can:
http://mashable.com/2011/07/20/lion-clean-install-guide/
I haven't installed Lion yet but I like the sound of revision histories and not having to tell TextEdit et al whether I want to save each goddam file when I close the app/shut down.
― Alba, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
dayo, Apple just updated its support page with some thing that lets you create an external recovery disk for Lion: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but it still doesn't let me upgrade sl on this mbp to the lion of our new imac, the stingy fuckers
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
ugh
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
Update on my "flash issue," here is a 53 page (and counting) thread on my exact issue:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3194165?start=0&tstart=0
Its not just limited to Flash either, any type of video AT ALL. Brand new comp and cant watch any type of video, awesome!
Lion sucks.
― streetball technician in the flesh (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 07:28 (twelve years ago) link
does rkaufmann eventually concede that there's a real problem?
― koogs, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 08:33 (twelve years ago) link
that sounds a lot like what I encountered yesterday xp. thinking seriously about downgrading to SL
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 10:29 (twelve years ago) link
cool http://9to5mac.com/2011/07/28/users-report-video-related-freezes-in-lion/
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 10:39 (twelve years ago) link
I had the login freeze at the weekend.
This will probably be fixed in the next few days, if it's affecting that many people.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 10:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah likely, but I dunno if I should downgrade to SL permanently or just ride it out.
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 11:09 (twelve years ago) link
effort involved in downgrading to sl v waiting a few days for lion patch
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 11:12 (twelve years ago) link
otoh
effort involved in putting up with unuseable lion v using an operating system that works
Aperture has basically been unusable for me since upgrading to Lion. It's opened up a severe memory leak or performance bug somewhere, and the system crawls if I try to do anything.
― Millsner, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 11:23 (twelve years ago) link
stable release > new release w/ unknown quantity of bugs
only thing is, if I make a boot volume from lion I dunno what would happen if I tried to install it over SL in case I wanted to upgrade in the future.
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 11:36 (twelve years ago) link
Wrong time to say this but THIS is why jumping to a new major release is the worst idea ever.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 11:38 (twelve years ago) link
fwiw i upgraded to lion a few weeks ago and havent had any problems at all. tho i dont do much but ride the information superhighway & use photoshop
― max, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
The only issue ("issue") I've had is that Starcraft 2 seems to grind a bit after first loading, probably because the system isn't allocating enough memory and it's having to dump apps out of the cache. Who knows, maybe because of more innocuous reasons.
I really like all the gestures and stuff? I'm probably in the "this is a good awesome release" minority.
― mh, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
No issues here either. I'm on a MBP 17" from a couple of years back, with 4 gigs of RAM. I've held off on upgrading my iMac since it's a 2007 model with only 2 gigs of RAM & I'm not sure how it will do.
― Euler, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
Can you really still not get a Macbook Air with more than 4GB of memory? Seems ridiculous.
― mh, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://9to5mac.com/2011/08/09/turn-off-irritating-changes-in-lion-with-lion-tweaks/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+9To5Mac-MacAllDay+%289+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
haven't updated yet, last I checked some of my software isn't compatible, though I'm sure it will be soon. I don't mind waiting till more kinks are worked out.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
the ars review isn't as overall positive as the SL one was, but I guess there are enough new 'innovations' to keep it around til they fix it
resolution independence... around the corner maybe? seems it's just a matter of updating all the little bitmaps
guess I'll use the 'workaround' which is to tell the imac to never sleep and to just turn it on/off when not in use
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
i upgraded because i figured the iOS 5 upgrade would be a must and i figured there might be a bunch of lion-only stuff?
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
best part of iOS 5 is you never have to connect it to a computer again!
― mh, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link