Hi Alan, Explanation why Safari 6 and other apps quit when idle.
Automatic termination is a feature of OS X Lion and OS X Mountain Lion that comes from the realm of iOS, the idea is that after an app is unused for a period of time and becomes inactive, it will automatically terminate to free up resources for other tasks. With the help of the new auto-savefeature, the user should theoretically never notice any of this going on and they can continue on with their work as usual when they need to, letting Mac OS X manage processes and resources for them without quitting apps or manual interaction through Activity Monitor. You can Disable Automatic Termination in Mac OS X By entering a command in Terminal but I would prefer people to let the operating system work as it is designed, so I won't give the terminal command in my reply to WAMUG mailing list. So Alan, you don't have any problems as far as I can understand by reading your emails. Mountain Lion is not Windows, stop fiddling and things will work as they should ;-) Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 03/12/2012, at 5:39 PM, Alan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > The strange behaviour started when Mountain Lion was installed. I normally > have the following apps "active" in the Dock with just the white "led" > indicator showing: Finder, Mail, Safari, iTunes, EyeTV, and (in recent weeks) > Console. I always work with the minimum number of programs with open > windows on the desktop. To quit an active app with an open window I click > on its red "traffic light". My understanding is that if it is a "single > window" program it will quit completely and not display a Dock "led". If it > is a multi-window program (e.g. Safari), the window will close but the Dock > "led" will continue to display (and the app be ready for background activity). > > Safari does not quit when I'm using it. I finish my internet work, "red > light" it, and do other things. I come back to use Safari and notice the > Dock "led" in not showing (sometimes). Safari has completely quit all by > itself. Sometimes Safari is active when I leave the iMac to go to sleep, but > has quitted when I re-awaken the computer (or does so shortly afterwards). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121203/2c62e2b1/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
