But the fact is that throughout all versions of Lion, and now in Mountain Lion, Apple has not altered this aspect of Automatic Termination’s behavior an automatically terminated application’s icon is still removed from the Dock and the Command-Tab switcher, just as it would be if the user had quit the application deliberately or the application had crashed. That might be the case, if an automatically terminated application’s icon remained in the Dock and the Command-Tab switcher, so that you could conveniently relaunch it and some have suggested that the icon’s failure in this regard was just a minor bug which Apple The best that can be said for it is that, given the existence of additional Lion and Mountain Lion features such as Auto Save and Resume (which, together, allow an application’s state to be restored the next time it is launched), the distinction between whether an application is running or not is of diminished importance. Optimistic attempts by various Apple apologists to justify this astonishing behavior have not, in my view, met with any success. Fortunately, the ScreenFlow subprocess that records the screen does not quit!) (Actually, if you look really sharp, you’ll see that ScreenFlow has also vanished much earlier from the Dock, and is later missing from the Command-Tab switcher as well. ![]() If you look sharp, you can see it vanish from the right end of the Dock a subsequent search for it in the Command-Tab switcher also proves fruitless. Note that I have not told TextEdit to quit! All I’ve done is I then close TextEdit’s document, and switch to the Finder by clicking on the desktop. Then, using LaunchBar, I launch TextEdit and I open a new document. You’ll see me first flip through the Command-Tab switcher to reveal what applications are running - just LaunchBar, ScreenFlow, and the Finder. It’s a simple-minded screencast, but it shows plainly that Mountain Lion is still a quitter. ![]() I’ve posted a screencast that demonstrates the persistence in Mountain Lion of Lion’s quit-prone behavior. It was with bated breath that I waited to learn whether Lion’s recently released successor, 10.8 Mountain Lion, would prove to have kicked this vile habit. #1643: New Mac mini and MacBook Pro models, new second-gen HomePod, security-focused OS updates, industry layoffsĪlmost exactly a year ago, I pointed out that Mac OS X 10.7 Lion had the habit of causing some applications to quit while you were using them (“ Lion Is a Quitter,” 5 August 2011) - a habit which, as I explained at the time, goes by the name of Automatic Termination.#1644: Explaining Mastodon and the Fediverse, HomePod Software 16.3 and tvOS 16.3, GoTo breach. ![]()
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