At 12:06 PM -0700 2/25/2011, Tina K. wrote:
And finally, remember that OS X's memory manager is fairly passive. It
lets processes have and hold memory until someone else needs it. So you
can beat Safari into submission.... Just run something that steals all
the memory. I find that opening two dozen big jpgs with
GraphicConverter does just the trick! It forces Safari to outpage
quickly, then not page that stuff back in until actually needed -
perhaps hours later! lol
Great trick to know, thank you!
In a way, this one really bit me a few mins ago. I was reading
ifixit's tear down of the new MBP... and they have a link for the BIG
picture of the motherboard. Well, that pic is 6.6 MB! Safari
totally choked when I clicked on it! Took 5 minutes to display it
and dragged my QS to its knees while doing so. When I finally got
control long enough to close that tab, my machine was still sluggish.
I quit Safari and a few seconds later everything came back and iStat
Menus showed 60% of my memory was suddenly available! *grumble*
On the subject of browsers, is there any logical reason that Firefox
doesn't have kb shortcuts to switch between tabs? Even KeyCue
doesn't show any. Every once-in-a-while I try Firefox again and I
quickly remember why I don't use it. Why would it be missing such a
basic feature?
hum. Have to go try that. If none set, you can probably do one
directly in the keycaps (System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard
Shortcuts). Or, easier, I wonder if Spark will let you do it? Spark
is like the old KeyQuencer, which was like QuicKeys. I know Spark
works in Tiger; not sure about newer OS' tho.
<http://www.shadowlab.org/Software/spark.php>
- Dan.
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