Snow Leopard is not great

Question

Ever since I installed Snow Leopard on my Mac and my MacBook, I have applications freezing (or crashing) all the time. This has happened with Apple applications (Safari, Pages, etc.) as well as 3rd party software (Canon Scanner, Microsoft Office, etc.).
If you plan on getting Snow Leopard, I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU DON'T until they fix the problem(s).

Answer 1

That's not the bit i'm talking about. Sure the installer works fine and does its job in usually much less than the 45 minutes it first says it's going to take.
The problems come with reinstalling all the software which gets messed up in the process because of the way large software packages install various elements and folders and hidden files all over, reregistering a lot of software, making various tweaks to app settings and system prefs., finding replacements for all the now incompatible software, etc.
Of course all of this is lessened with an OS reinstall +(especially with archive, but that often defeats the purpose of correcting some peculiar problem)+ rather than an upgrade, but i've never even done a reinstall where i wasn't finding items i'd overlooked, and apps that needed reinstalling for weeks afterward.
The Leopard snags i was talking about include various changes in OS structure or peculiar behaviors which showed up as part of Leopard itself, and which have never been improved or corrected by Apple.
For example, in Tiger, and prior, when composing a new email, it was possible to use the toolbar buttons to change font size. In Leopard, from the time i installed 10.5.0, until the installation of 10.6.0, those buttons only worked in replies or forwards, and were always greyed out when composing new emails.
Similarly, "smart" mailboxes have never worked properly for me with my large volumes of mail. Even after initial known problems with bad logic were corrected +(which it seemed should have been found in beta testing)+, i always got essentially random numbers and lists of unread messages which didn't match the criteria. Only after clicking on the different "smart" mailboxes several times and waiting, would i finally get a correct list.
In Snow Leopard, speed and efficiency +(i'm guessing)+ of searching by smart mailboxes has made a big improvement.
But now i've had my workflow destroyed by the removal of Contextual Menu Modules i rely on dozens of times daily. (e.g. FolderGlance)
*Apologies if that sounds whiny.* Actually most of what i've seen so far in Snow Leopard is impressive, especially the speed!
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