{"id":3680,"date":"2011-08-09T09:01:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T14:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3680"},"modified":"2011-08-09T09:01:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T14:01:30","slug":"lion-is-a-quitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/09\/lion-is-a-quitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Lion Is a Quitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/12398\">Matt Neuburg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/12398\"><p>On the other hand, the fact is that when Lion caused Preview to quit automatically yesterday on my machine, I <em>was<\/em> using Preview. I wasn&rsquo;t using it actively at that moment in a way that Lion knew about &mdash; there were no open Preview windows, and Preview wasn&rsquo;t frontmost &mdash; but I was engaged in some activity involving Preview. I had switched away from Preview only in order to prepare things in the Finder so that the document I intended to open in Preview would be ready. But when I switched back to Preview with Command-Tab, Preview was gone. That&rsquo;s not helpful or useful; it&rsquo;s annoying, confusing, and a hindrance. I had to launch Preview explicitly again in order to continue with my task.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve seen the same issue with Preview, QuickTime Player, and TextEdit. Since I don&rsquo;t use Command-Tab, it doesn&rsquo;t really bother me except for the constant appearing and disappearing from the Dock. If there&rsquo;s no memory pressure, the system should wait a while in case you&rsquo;re going to switch right back to the same application.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Neuburg: On the other hand, the fact is that when Lion caused Preview to quit automatically yesterday on my machine, I was using Preview. I wasn&rsquo;t using it actively at that moment in a way that Lion knew about &mdash; there were no open Preview windows, and Preview wasn&rsquo;t frontmost &mdash; but I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3681,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions\/3681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}