I forgot to mention that I am still running Snowleopard
and its version of safari which may be the problem, here.
Since the development box is in the advanced form, there
should be some way to get that menu to appear.
I also got the dreaded spinning beachball of death and
voiceover chanting "safari busy. Safary ready . . busy ready
busy," etc on a web form I was filling out yesterday so I
finally turned off voiceover and then turned it back on in a few
minutes and it seemed to have resolved its death grip on
whatever is happening during these events.
I have had this particular Mac for a couple of years,
now, and it is mostly steady as a rock. Some of the
Windows-oriented web sites I try it on make safari positively
croak, however.
As for Lion's processes being properly protected from
one another, it could be that the resources of the system are
being severely strained by one or more applications especially
if voiceover is running. It really shouldn't just melt down.
I am not a trained MacOS expert, but generally, one way
to really kill a unix box is to let it run out of memory and
swap space. The OS installer probably takes note of all these
resources, but if your system is a little low on RAM, for
instance, the installer will hopefully make the best of the
worst decisions. This doesn't mean that you will crash every time, but you
may when the system gets very busy and some of those apps hog
memory.
Bryan Jones writes:
> Lion, it's apps, and it's processes are far from perfectly sandboxed. If
> I'm in an application and I get the Beach Ball of Death AKA BBOD AKA Busy
> Busy Busy Busy), I consider it a lucky day when Lion actually allows me
> to force quit the app without the rest of the system getting flaky. Most
> times I just save my work and restart the system at that point.
>
> Bryan
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