On May 22, 2013, at 12:45 PM, Dave C wrote:
Let's see. The open/save dialogs where the sheet comes down. Making the dock display and hide instantly, there are others. I forget. I've got most in a set of Terminal commands.
Care to forward the list of commands?
Make sure to hit:
Speed up delay before dock displays:
defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0 && killall Dock
Drastically speed up the display of "sheets" when saving and opening documents via the dialogs:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime .001
Remove the animation when transitioning from one space to another in Snow Leopard
defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-swoosh-animation-off -bool YES && killall Dock
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO
Set new windows to open up defaulted to list view
defaults write com.apple.Finder FXPreferredViewStyle Nisv
Disable Widgets:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
killall Dock
So unlike most others who miss Rosetta and other SL features, you are running ML virtually (instead of vice versa)? I had not considered this. Seriously cool idea.
Yep. I checked in with the author of Carbon Copy cloner and showed him how to do it and he said that if he knew how to do that 6 months ago, he would still be in Snow Leopard.
My 17" MBP (Not buying another MBP until they make a 17 and one that is user serviceable) boots to Snow Leopard off an SSD and has a second drive for extra stuff. I only wish I could put in 24 or 32 GB of RAM, since Safari always ends up being such a bloated memory pig.
Gad, for the longest time I thought it was something I had mis-configured, or was an inherent deficiency with the 2011 mini/SL hack that was causing such huge slow-downs. Then it struck me that the configuration slows miserably only when Safari (and to some degree, Firefox -- God help me, I run both simultaneously a lot of the time) is running. I've turned off java & flash (ClickToPlugin is my friend) and this helps mitigate the worst.
Well, one thing that I noticed was that when I removed the Weatherbug widget, My Mac would stay fast for a longer period of time. Remember that each Widget is a web page and uses WebKit. My main gripe with Safari is that each running instance of _javascript_ must clean up after itself, so if some script just keeps loading ads without clearing the variable reference to the previous one, this ends up staying in memory and bloating Safari's memory usage. Over time (a day), Safari's eaten up 5+ GB of RAM. And this is all due to the individual _javascript_s on each page just continuing to churn away. All we need is one poorly written one and it will chug, chug, chug. One bad actor bloats Safari, which then takes memory out of the global pool. Just disable the dock if you never use it and your Mac will be faster.
This is why I have been writing these things to put Safari into a suspended state when in the background. What I'm probably going to change to is a simple "disable _javascript_ when the app is not frontmost" as my solution is not responsive enough.
You'll want to block your ads and block Flash. The newer version of Click To Flash is Click To Plugin. You'll want to get that.