Comments on: Default Folder X ready for Leopard

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:05:56 +0000

Shawn - I’m mulling over the HistoryHound plans. There’s obviously a market for HistoryHound, despite the integration of Safari’s history into Spotlight in Leopard. HistoryHound supports other browsers and gives you a more purpose-built UI for searching. I’m also adding more targeted searching (restricting your search by date, for example) and have been considering generating small preview images to display in the search results. What’s holding me back on preview images is the performance overhead of creating them when HH scans pages - it requires pulling down all the images, rather than just the text in the page, so it’s going to bog things down when HH is updating its index. I think HistoryHound can be a faster, more efficient way to search your browser history if its UI is done right. It’s just a matter of finding something that works well for a broad spectrum of users. At this point, I don’t have a release date for the changes I’ve got for HH - basically “after Default Folder X 4.0″

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:51:34 +0000

Jon, as you’re working on DFX for Leopard, do you have any plans you can share publicly about History Hound?
Thanks!

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:13:39 +0000

Mat - This type of thing is usually a symptom of some kind of corruption or damage in your preference file. Please follow the steps in the Default Folder X FAQ for deleting your preference file. I suspect that’ll fix things - if not, drop an email to our support address and we’ll see if we can find any other possible causes.

By: Mat Lu

Mat Lu — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:09:08 +0000

I’ve noticed random problems in Leopard; the helper daemon will hang and require force-quitting. This generally happens when I’m too fast in closing the sheet. Is there any way to speed Default Folder X up?

By: oblaum

oblaum — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:09:04 +0000

bring it on