So, Mac OSX 10.7.3 is out now

[Bateluer]

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1485

Add Catalan, Croatian, Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, Slovak, Thai, and Ukrainian language support
Address issues when using smart cards to log into OS X
Resolve issues authenticating with directory services
Address compatibility issues with Windows file sharing

Not a big update, weighed about 745MB for me.

 

[Stuxnet]

Wow.. all those extra characters sure took up a lot of space.

 

[runawayprisoner]

Included are incremental bug fixes for system apps. I have read Safari 5.1.3, Mail 5.2 and iCal 5.0.2.

I live almost right next to Apple's HQ and download speed is still very slow. Looks like Mac users all over the world are hammering their servers... hard!

On a side note, no issue with Lion on my MBP since I upgraded to 16GB of RAM, so I doubt I'll see much improvement with 10.7.3. But I hope Safari's graphical glitches and blank-outs are fixed...

 

[alfa147x]

Well looks like I'll be hackintoshing this weekend

 

[runawayprisoner]

Well, Safari, Mail, and iCal have been updated.

System runs smoother.

Other than that, I haven't noticed other changes.

 

[MrX8503]

The update was quite hefty. I ended up running monolingual to remove the languages.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Address compatibility issues with Windows file sharing

Hoping this fixes spotlight indexing of file shares. I've also noticed iTunes is currently dog slow when my music library is hosted on a share (like batch changing tags, for example)

 

[alfa147x]

Hoping this fixes spotlight indexing of file shares. I've also noticed iTunes is currently dog slow when my music library is hosted on a share (like batch changing tags, for example)

Have you tried AFS?

 

[Gooberlx2]

Have you tried AFS?

My NAS is my old Windows7 PC that I just re-purposed. I'd blow it away and install a linux distro, or FreeNAS but a) I still use media center extender and the Zune software to wirelessly sync a Zune80 and b) I'm too lazy. 🙂

 

[alfa147x]

My NAS is my old Windows7 PC that I just re-purposed. I'd blow it away and install a linux distro, or FreeNAS but a) I still use media center extender and the Zune software to wirelessly sync a Zune80 and b) I'm too lazy. 🙂

Solution:
VM FreeNAS inside of it. Have it serve your computers while Win7 does MCE and Zune.

Might be a little inefficient 😉

 

[OSXMan]

Well, Safari, Mail, and iCal have been updated.

System runs smoother.

Other than that, I haven't noticed other changes.

haha, you actually use Safari!?

Get a real browser *firefox* haha

/justjokingwithyou

 

[Printer Bandit]

safari is smooth as butter now.

 

[TheStu]

safari is smooth as butter now.

Have they finally fixed that weird reloading thing where all of a sudden it would decide that all your tabs need to be refreshed because one of them (or safari) freaked out?

 

[Printer Bandit]

Have they finally fixed that weird reloading thing where all of a sudden it would decide that all your tabs need to be refreshed because one of them (or safari) freaked out?

this?

haven't seen it so far. will need to use safari more.

 

[Bateluer]

The update was quite hefty. I ended up running monolingual to remove the languages.

Noted. I need to run this.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Solution:
VM FreeNAS inside of it. Have it serve your computers while Win7 does MCE and Zune.

Might be a little inefficient 😉

But....the laziness! :awe:

 

[runawayprisoner]

Have they finally fixed that weird reloading thing where all of a sudden it would decide that all your tabs need to be refreshed because one of them (or safari) freaked out?

Upgrading to 16GB RAM fixed it for me on 10.7.2. It happened quite regularly with 4GB.

But now that I fixed it, I'm not sure if 10.7.3 remedied it or not... Though RAM usage in Safari has noticeably gone down in Activity Manager. It used to float at 2GB with 8 tabs open. I've gotten 500MB consistently for the past 14 hours.

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On a side note, graphical glitches still here.

 

[TheStu]

Upgrading to 16GB RAM fixed it for me on 10.7.2. It happened quite regularly with 4GB.

But now that I fixed it, I'm not sure if 10.7.3 remedied it or not... Though RAM usage in Safari has noticeably gone down in Activity Manager. It used to float at 2GB with 8 tabs open. I've gotten 500MB consistently for the past 14 hours.

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On a side note, graphical glitches still here.

Yea, not really an option for me on my main OS X system, MacBook Air. The graphical glitches are annoying, but not nearly as bad as IE10 on Win8 DevPreview.

 

[Geekbabe]

The update was quite hefty. I ended up running monolingual to remove the languages.

nice tip, worked smoothly, thank you!

 

[runawayprisoner]

Yea, not really an option for me on my main OS X system, MacBook Air. The graphical glitches are annoying, but not nearly as bad as IE10 on Win8 DevPreview.

I think I spoke too soon about Safari. It's the 3rd day now, and Safari is steadily climbing up the ladder. It's taking up 790MB now. There seems to be some minimal amount of memory leak still. Not as bad as before, of course, but I don't doubt that it'll eventually get there... as I don't quit Safari on a regular basis.

Closing down tabs don't help at all. I'd guess that once it has inflated itself enough, it starts forcing RAM to page out to SSD or HDD, thus causing the blank pages as the system tries to read the information back into RAM.

Ah well, bummer. 10.7.4 it is then. Makes me wonder if Apple would make 8GB RAM mandatory in the next Mac lineup revision.

 

[Printer Bandit]

safari 5.1.4 is using 270 MB here.

 

[Bateluer]

safari 5.1.4 is using 270 MB here.

5.1.4 come out after the 5.1.3 in 10.7.3?

Seems like a lot of browsers have memory leaks . . .FireFox 4 through 7 were bad too.

 

[MrX8503]

Noted. I need to run this.

nice tip, worked smoothly, thank you!

You're welcome. Just make sure that under "Input Menu" and "Architecture" you have everything unchecked. When I first used it, I somehow deleted my apple keyboard and it was a big pain to get it restored.

 

[runawayprisoner]

Seems like a lot of browsers have memory leaks . . .FireFox 4 through 7 were bad too.

In my opinions, Safari in Lion is just... slightly worse than Firefox 4, 8 and 9 with regards to memory leak. Skipped Firefox 5 to 7 altogether so I have no idea.

 

[Patranus]

How about an update for iPhoto to allow the sending of group email?
I mean really apple?