Safari on Mac...

Drdogface · Drdogface's Garage

A few months ago I upgraded my iMac to System OSX 10.7.4 which is called Lion. I'm not liking it much at all and just recently I see that the head menu bar no longer has a Google app. Not sure if I did something to lose it or it just went away. My wife has OSX Mt. Lion and she still has it. I like that system a lot better. In converting to Lion I also lost Adobe Photoshop and Appleworks.

I wanna move 'backwards' to Mt. Lion but not sure it's compatible with iCloud.. I think it is..

Anyone else here using Lion and not liking it ?

stomachmonkey · 07-29-2012, 10:27 AM

Stayed on Snow Leapored 10.6.8.

First time in 20 years I avoided a new release.

gassy · 07-29-2012, 10:33 AM

I'm on Lion and wish I hadn't upgraded. Long story short I had to buy a new laptop.

Drdogface · Drdogface's Garage

I guess I had it wrong. Mt Lion is even newer that Lion. I want to go back to Snow Leopard and I don't really give a crap about 'the cloud' anyway.

stomachmonkey · 07-29-2012, 12:13 PM

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I guess I had it wrong. Mt Lion is even newer that Lion. I want to go back to Snow Leopard and I don't really give a crap about 'the cloud' anyway.

Doable if you have the media.

porsche4life · porsche4life's Garage

I have a snow leopard disc if one can not be readily obtained....

porsche4life · porsche4life's Garage

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Stayed on Snow Leapored 10.6.8.

First time in 20 years I avoided a new release.

I'm still on SL. Are you going to Mt lion?

Ronbo · 07-29-2012, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Drdogface

A few months ago I upgraded my iMac to System OSX 10.7.4 which is called Lion. I'm not liking it much at all and just recently I see that the head menu bar no longer has a Google app. Not sure if I did something to lose it or it just went away. My wife has OSX Mt. Lion and she still has it. I like that system a lot better. In converting to Lion I also lost Adobe Photoshop and Appleworks.

I just upgraded my iMac and MacBook to Mountain Lion without issue. You are right about Safari losing the separate Google search bar. It's now incorporated with the URL bar, and the system somehow figures out if you're typing in a web address or doing a web search. Seems to work well so far.

I don't really understand when you say you lost Photoshop and AppleWorks. The software should still be on your drive. It's possible that they're old versions that won't work with OS 10.8.

stomachmonkey · 07-29-2012, 03:01 PM

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Stayed on Snow Leapored 10.6.8.

First time in 20 years I avoided a new release.

I'm still on SL. Are you going to Mt lion?

Doubt it, least not in the near term.

Nothing on Lion that I need so why bother.

BlueSkyJaunte · 07-29-2012, 03:11 PM

I stayed on SL also. Can't afford to lose PPC compatibility.

Drdogface · Drdogface's Garage

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Originally Posted by Ronbo

I just upgraded my iMac and MacBook to Mountain Lion without issue. You are right about Safari losing the separate Google search bar. It's now incorporated with the URL bar, and the system somehow figures out if you're typing in a web address or doing a web search. Seems to work well so far.

I don't really understand when you say you lost Photoshop and AppleWorks. The software should still be on your drive. It's possible that they're old versions that won't work with OS 10.8.

Appleworks and Photoshop are not compatible with Lion....very disappointing to me. There is really nothing about Lion I like. I doubt that Mt Lion is any better. This is the frist time I've been disappointed by Apple...

I had no idea about the google bar being in the url bar. Just type in a search phrase and it'll work ??? Hmmm, must try it...

porsche4life · porsche4life's Garage

FWIW... The URL bar works for search in firefox on snowleopard already....

Drdogface · Drdogface's Garage

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Originally Posted by gassy

I'm on Lion and wish I hadn't upgraded. Long story short I had to buy a new laptop.

Ouch ! I'd like to hear more about that

Christien · Christien's Garage

I read too many complaints about Lion, so I too stayed with Snow Leopard.

nostatic · nostatic's Garage

What version of photoshop are you running? I have both CS3 and CS4 running under Lion with no issues.

There are some annoying things with Lion but they can mostly be dealt with. If you don't need to upgrade (eg iCloud) then SL works great. I haven't had any real problems with Lion though, and most apps (that can be) have been updated to work with it.

fwiw I mostly run Firefox.

Drdogface · Drdogface's Garage

Thanks for the reply. I don't presently have PS on my machine since I upgraded ? to Lion. I forget which version I had on Leopard. My wife has SL and PS so maybe I can bring it over from hers. Thanks for that tip. I am presently on the cloud but it doesn't work that well for me in sync'ing my iPhone and iPad so I really don't much care about it. Leopard was OK but it kept crashing on my...Safari did, anyway. I use my wife's Macbook a lot in the AM and like SL...

BlueSkyJaunte · 07-30-2012, 08:47 AM

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fwiw I mostly run Firefox.

Same here. I went from Safari, to Camino, to Chrome, to Chromium, to Firefox. FF is bloaty and has its quirks but at least I have some extensions available and I don't feel like I'm being spied on by Apple or Google.

I have been VERY disappointed by Chrome/Chromium. The features list is impressive but the stability is horrendous.

Ronbo · 07-30-2012, 10:24 AM

If you're using iCloud to any extent I would suggest trying to work with Mountain Lion. The ability to save documents directly to iCloud is quite handy. I have also noticed that the last website I viewed on my iMac can be picked up on my MacBook later on through the bookmarks menu.

Porsche-O-Phile · Porsche-O-Phile's Garage

I just went over to Mountain Lion - kicks azz. One minor issue with Parallels Desktop sharing the wireless connection nicely with Mac OS but it just required tweaking a setting in Parallels 7. Now works flawlessly. Nice upgrade. The messaging feature is pretty cool and now the notifications let you dump Growl (one less thing to worry about having to upgrade & pay for), etc. It is definitely more cloud-based, but that's not entirely bad. I still keep anything sensitive local on my machine only but for shared / less-than-sensitive stuff the cloud is great and it's thus far flawless. For $20 it's worth the upgrade. I swear everything runs faster too.

EDIT: Oh supposedly native AirPlay to AppleTV now for all my videos, etc. I haven't tried it yet but am looking forward to it. I think if I want the really high resolution I'll still need the HDMI cable connection which I have but for run-of-the-mill stuff it's not big deal.

Drdogface · Drdogface's Garage

So is Mt Lion simply an upgrade or do I have to install a whole new system ? If I download it will it more or less just take Lion and upgrade it to Mt. Lion ?