As I may have mentioned before, I'm a big fan of Quicksilver. It really makes using a Mac very fast, as far as tasks. However, my Mac has been very slow lately, and I was looking for things to kill. When I stopped Quicksilver from starting automatically on logon, things got much faster.
What I'm guessing is happening is that Quicksilver was taking too much memory with it's index. Spotlight does similar things, and is perhaps not as fast, but seems to have a much lighter footprint. Besides, two apps that have an index of everything seems fairly wasteful.
So, no more Quicksilver. It was a nice app, though. Very well designed. If I ever get a faster computer, with much more memory, I may consider using it again.
Posted by ahyatt at September 9, 2005 07:28 PM