Mac OS X 10.4.3 - Update good/bad?

[Jason]

looks to be going fine on my iBook G3 800mhz... (10.4 is definitely the last OS for this guy, it's already feeling old)

[arodweb]

everytime i run an app the fans on my dual 2.5 cranck up really loud for a few seconds . otherwise everything's stable

[eliezer]

ye. i agree. safari is much quicker. loving it.

haven't really noticed any other changes, but i did only just downloaded it

[Mikuro]

I upgraded from 10.4.2 using the combo updater. Aside from a very long wait at the gray "spinny thing" screen during startup, everything's been smooth.

Safari does seem a bit faster, but I attribute that to the fact that PithHelmet no longer works. It always slows Safari down, but it's such a useful tool that I hate to be without it anyway. Despite what Apple says, Safari still does not pass the Acid2 test for me. And that's the first thing they say in their changes list, too. Boo! (Although it's a pretty retarded test, anyway, since it demands that the browser rob the user of the ability to specify minimum font sizes, which is pure evil.)

I'm glad that the annoying, misleading "not responding" label on my iChat Agent is now gone from Activity Monitor. Aside from that, I haven't noticed any differences. And that's the sign of a good incremental update, if you ask me.

[fryke]

Acid2 test works perfectly here on Safari 2.0.2 (416.12).

[bobw]

PithHelmet broken, fix It appears that PithHelmet, the content filtering/add-on tool for Safari is once again broken under Mac OS X 10.4.3. Until the developer updates the software, a poster to VersionTracker's discussion boards has found a workaround:

Close Safari.
Navigate to /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/PithHelmet.bundle.
Open bundle and go to Contents.
Open info.plist - You can use either Property List Editor or TextEdit.
Locate BundleIdentifier for com.apple.Safari.
Change BOTH MaxBundleVersion AND MinBundleVersion to 416.12.
Save and relaunch Safari.

[lilbandit]

All good on my setup. DP 2ghz Powermac, no problems. Safari a little more responsive, dashboard still fairly slow off the mark though. Ran Macjanitor and diskutility before updating.

[fryke]

I don't want to jump to a conclusion here, but let's do a preliminary one all the same...

1.) In my opinion, there's still too many people using Software Update instead of the combo updater for system updates.

2.) Users of PithHelmet should be made aware of the fact that it's hard-linked to the Safari version, i.e. Safari will be broken at any update if PithHelmet is used. I'm not sure whether the developer of PH can fix this for the future or whether he even intends to. But users should remove PH before updating Safari and/or the system. (And it's not SIMBL at fault in my opinion, because I'm using other add-ons that make use of SIMBL without these problems...)

3.) 10.4.3 is not yet _the_ Tiger update that fixes Tiger to the state we want, although a lot of work has gone into this update. But it's close. With Panther, it was 10.3.4 that got the best reviews. (After that, things went downhill, but let's keep our fingers crossed that Apple doesn't repeat _those_ errors...)