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It doesn't always recognize my voice when I speak a command. Specially if there is a lot or little noise.

Garageband crashes sporadically when I use the transport controls immediately after recording a track.

EDIT: Every version I've used, on at least two different computers.

Last edited by Metacell (2009-07-03 2:21 pm)

Well, all the biggest bugs I had with Leopard were squashed with Snow Leopard. So... I don't have much to complain about anymore.

When I had Leopard, I had horrible bugs in many Apple apps where clicks would be delayed. I could never explain it well so I never talked about it. Click once, nothing happens. Click elsewhere and the first click takes place, click again, and the second click took place. The bug went away when I clicked and dragged the title bar. But then came back when I let the app idle for a while. It did this in Mail and Xcode. Doesn't anymore.

Right now I only have bugs that only exist because a few of my apps don't like Snow Leopard yet. But they're all third party apps.

Movist doesn't work well when fullscreen anymore, and does not show up in any Finder "Open with" menu.

My console is filled with constant messages saying "dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache". They show up for many apps. And fill the console to the brim.

Oh, and this has been happening for a while since 10.5 really, but occasionally when using my MacBook as a laptop, the trackpad will stop working. Completely. For minutes at a time. Until I plug in a mouse. And I can't figure out a cause.

Also, the keyboard likes to eat keypresses a lot. I find myself retyping my password because one number did not get put in. And I DID hit it. It just refuses to acknowledge.

Oh, and one day I made an iMovie, and exported it. Put it up on YouTube. But when I went back to iMovie to fix a problem, it had deleted the project. (This is the latest iMovie) No warning at all. It was just gone. Not in the trash. No where. Just gone! For no reason!

Oh, and for some silly reason, as the Finder is generating, or should I say QuickLook Server is generating thumbnails for videos, my speakers make a popping sound. Why? How is the QuickLook Thumbnail generator even associated with the speakers? It's faint, but noticable if not playing music. And I don't hear it when not connected to speakers so I guess it's sending an electrical pulse through the audio output for some reason.

Mr. Happypants wrote:

Two-finger Ctrl-click on the MacBook (in Firefox mostly) refuses to bring up the contextual menu as it should. So, if I try to Ctrl-click on a link to Open Link In New Tab, it opens the Bookmark This Page dialog instead. Over and over and over! It's maddening.

What browser are you using? In Safari it is Command-click to open links in new tabs, and you must set this behaviour up in the preferences.

Ctrl-click (or right-click) gives you the contextual menu, which includes options for opening in a new tab or window, or bookmark the link, and more.

ukimalefu wrote:

Mr. Happypants wrote:

Two-finger Ctrl-click on the MacBook (in Firefox mostly) refuses to bring up the contextual menu as it should. So, if I try to Ctrl-click on a link to Open Link In New Tab, it opens the Bookmark This Page dialog instead. Over and over and over! It's maddening.

What browser are you using? In Safari it is Command-click to open links in new tabs, and you must set this behaviour up in the preferences.

Ctrl-click (or right-click) gives you the contextual menu, which includes options for opening in a new tab or window, or bookmark the link, and more.

FireFox 3.0.11, but that Cmd-Click is cool, didn't know that! Oddly, when the Ctrl-click acts up like this, if I hi-light some text, then try again it works 99% of the time.

Wouldn't this thread already have like 50 pages or so if it were titled worst Windows bug.

wellfleation wrote:

I just got my first kernel panic in like three years about an hour ago.

Not a bug I know.

Then what was caused it?
Hardware failure?

resedit wrote:

wellfleation wrote:

I just got my first kernel panic in like three years about an hour ago.

Not a bug I know.

Then what was caused it?
Hardware failure?

It's rare, but every once in a while you will get a flipped bit in RAM or other random error. Hence the use of error checking RAM in servers. Of course, it's more likely that it was actually a bug.

Jasoco's experience with track pad and keyboard prompted this post. Since loading Leopard, the keyboard ascii entries are not accepted by my Mac Pro. I have to click in some other place before returning to complete what I was typing. This is a major annoyance but seems to be happening less frequently. I saw this problem discussed on a forum someplace and called Apple about it with no result. Later, I heard that Apple had managed to reproduce the problem and was working on it. I've updated to OS 10.5.7 and still have it.

Also, in Tiger, I could use Automator 'Pause' for any period I needed, e.g., 3600 seconds for an hour delay. In Leopard, I can't enter more than 59 seconds without getting a "Formatting Error" message. A significant loss of capability.

I'm putting up with these annoyances, but am wary of being an early adopter of Snow Leopard for fear it will add to rather than replace these bugs.

akb825 wrote:

resedit wrote:

wellfleation wrote:

I just got my first kernel panic in like three years about an hour ago.

Not a bug I know.

Then what was caused it?
Hardware failure?

It's rare, but every once in a while you will get a flipped bit in RAM or other random error. Hence the use of error checking RAM in servers. Of course, it's more likely that it was actually a bug.

Unless shielded from cosmic rays, no computer is immune from random bits flipping as they are struck by the stray subatomic particle.

When I woke my computer up to send some emails. I saw the spinning beach ball of death. Only thing is that it was not spinning. I relaunched the finder. Still there. So I tried to click something and  opened safari. So I noticed. It is not frozen. I started sending my emails and it changed to normal in about 3-4 minutes. The computer had been sleeping from 11:34 am - 9:47 pm. (approximately)

The WindowServer process that gets bigger and bigger until it slows the computed down.