More on Snow Leopard

Hmm. So I’ve had a bit more time to play with it, and it seems like the backspace/delete thing cleared up on its own after I restarted the computer again. Saft is still NOT showing up in Safari, although the software update says that I have the newest version. Multiclutch commands are still not working with me in Safari, so I’m not sure what’s going on with that program. I know that a new version was included with Snow Leopard, but if this isn’t fixed soon, I am going to downgrade to a previous version and see if that makes a difference.

Update: Yay! I was reading TUAW today, and it seems that the problem may be that Safari 4 is now running in 64 bit mode, and the plugins I was talking about only work in 32 bit. Here’s the post. Whew. I’m not at home, so I have to wait until after work to check, but I really hope this is the solution.

On the plus side, I’ve noticed that my computer seems to charge more quickly.

Snow Leopard

I upgraded my computer to Snow Leopard over the weekend. I’d read all sorts of favorable reviews (TUAW offers a roundup), and I found them convincing enough to plunk down $30 bucks. On the whole, the changes to OS X are small (at least for my purposes). Aside from manipulating my photos, and sometimes editings mp3s and videos, I don’t do a whole lot of media-related stuff on my computer. I do find a couple of the new features in Snow Leopard to be awesome. I like being able to view pdfs right from the folder without having to open preview and I love that transferring data is appreciably faster. Still, and I don’t know if it’s just my computer, I discovered that a few things are not working the way I’d hoped they would.

• Saft doesn’t give me an error about not working with Safari 4, but I don’t see the Saft menu when I go to options.
• Function + delete isn’t working as a Wind0ws-style delete for me, and it’s driving me nuts.
• Some of the Multiclutch functions that I programmed for Safari 4 in Leopard don’t seem to be working.

I actually only noticed most of these things last night, and I didn’t look into them too much, because I was finishing up a pair of socks (which came out beautifully, I know you were wondering). I’m not going to be home tonight until late, so I probably won’t get to it until tomorrow at the earliest. A quick glance at some Mac blogs showed that while people are definitely having problems related to upgrading , nobody has mentioned the problems that I’m having. Yay for being uniquely troubled!

In case you have already upgraded to Snow Leopard, MacLife offers a list of 100 tips, tricks, and features that are new to this version of OS X.