4.2b2 woes

[Evan de Riel]

I've had a pair of problems with OmniWeb 4.2 beta 2 the first time I 
tried running it.

The first one I noticed was with hiding: every time I tried to hide OW 
with command-H, it wouldn't work.  Choosing "Hide OmniWeb" from the 
menu hid all windows but not the menu bar; choosing "Hide Others" from 
another application worked as expected.  But, whenever I tried to open 
a URL from someplace else (say, Mail), only the new window would show 
up until I clicked on it somewhere--only then would the hidden windows 
appear.

The second problem is with memory and CPU use.  Normally OW is a bit 
more resource-intensive than Safari or other programs, but now I find 
it almost unusable.  With only two windows open it was taking up 260M 
of memory (according to top, anyway), and VSIZE was up to 900M.  I 
tried to flush the cache, figuring it would reduce these numbers, but 
then OW's CPU usage jumped up to 70% and the VSIZE expanded about 5M 
per second--frequently over 1000 pageouts per second.

Not wanting to subject my system to much more of this, I killed and 
restarted OmniWeb.  After that, hiding worked just fine and flushing 
the cache causing no ridiculous resource consumption.

I'm on a 500 MHz iBook with 10.2.4, 384M ram.

Evan.