Last Friday I installed Snow Leopard as an upgrade of Leopard on my Mac Mini. I also installed the newer Xcode from the Snow Leopard CD over the Xcode I already had. I finally reinstalled the Ports package, though I did not recompile all my ports yet.
But I got a number of very nasty surprises that seem uncommon, so I'm hoping someone out there has an idea what on Earth hit the fan here. I have tested the below findings with no ports running as far as I know. Problems include: 1. Safari is hopelessly slow! Navigating from one site to another, such as by typing in the address field, can take a full minute, during which VoiceOver occasionally says, "Safari busy." Similarly, getting to the menu bar with VO+M and moving among menu bar options with arrows can take up to a full minute per keystroke. 2. Typing into any edit control I tried, mostly TextEdit and Skype chat boxes, seems to cause the Mac to get behind, with or (I think) without VoiceOver running. With VO running, if I type reasonably fast, VO loses the ability to say the characters I type, goes silent for a moment, then starts saying "busy" once for each key I hit. I'm used to hearing individual characters as feedback against errors, and VO under Leopard handled that just fine. 3. Though some people claim that commands like VO+F2 for window name and VO+Shift+F3 for Cursor Tracking toggle still work in Snow Leopard, I (and one friend) find these commands do nothing now. I believe the Commands help still documents them though. Removing and making VO rebuild all preference files did not solve this. Any pointers will be most graciously accepted. This machine has a 300 gig drive with only 30 gig free, and I have as yet no device elsewhere with enough free space to afford me the option of a complete backup/format/restore. -- Doug Lee d...@dlee.org http://www.dlee.org SSB BART Group doug....@ssbbartgroup.com http://www.ssbbartgroup.com "When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you." --African Proverb --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
