8 Random Observations About Lion

Here are some random things I noticed during the first 3-4 days of using Lion. Since I haven’t added anything to this list in over a week, I think it’s time to post.

Keep Both Files

A new option has been added to the dialog box, when you try to copy a file over an existing file of the same name.

The “Keep Both Files” creates a file called “Firefox Copy” much like if you copy-paste a file in the same Folder.

I didn’t capture the exact number in Snow Leopard but as per my observation, Lion installation over Snow Leopard was around 4 gigs lighter than its predecssor.

Two nice things about Quick Look, both related to video playback, something I do quite often. First, it no longer stops playing videos when you move away from Finder. Two, it resizes playback window size when moving from one video to another. Quick Look before Lion would stick to the window size of the first video, when jumping from one to the other using arrow keys.

There’s no iSync application in Lion. But if you have access to Snow Leopard, you can simply copy over the application and it works fine. It even remembers your connected devices and settings, if you installed Lion over Snow Leopard.

Remember Front Row? Well Apple wants you to forget about it.

Safari is now broken into two processes – WebProcess, the Web/ rendering related stuff and Safari, which is just the application cover on top of that. This provides enhanced security by limiting the resources any malicious script can access.

Here’s how I disabled system wide new window animations. Type this in Terminal, press Enter and restart Dock.

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO

Next thing I did is disable the annoying animations in Mail.app as well. Restart Mail after this.

defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableReplyAnimations -bool YES

defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableSendAnimations -bool YES