Aral Balkan

I just did a quick run-through of the various apps I use on a daily basis to see if there were any issues with Snow Leopard. I haven't done any in-depth testing but the following apps launch and appear to work well under Snow Leopard:

• Quicksilver
• TextMate
• Photoshop CS3
• Flash CS3
• Illustrator CS3 (it crashed the first time I tried File → New; ⌘-N but worked after relaunching it)
• Fluid and apps created by Fluid
• Tweetie for Mac
• My simple AIR app for signing in to T-Mobile WiFi networks
• My ClippyML AIR app for quickly visualizing copy/pasted HTML
• My little Turkish Characters AIR app
• Tweetdeck 0.26.4 (I'm assuming, thus, that AIR apps are OK under Snow Leopard)
• Little Snapper 1.5.1 (10082)
• AppZapper
• Zooom/2 2.2.5
• Charles 3.3.1
• Transmit 3.3.6
• VLC video player 0.9.8
• iAlertU (great for when you need to pop to the loo when in a cafe!)
• VMWare Fusion (if anything, it seemed really fast – tested with Ubuntu and Vista VMs – and I'm not even running the latest version)
• XCode 3.1.3 – Leopard version, not the Snow Leopard version that I'll be upgrading to later today – and the iPhone simulator.

Apps that I needed to tweak:

• Firefox 3.5.2: I had to re-enable my persona to get the top image back.
• Terminal Visor/Visor.bundle (see this simple workaround to get Visor for OSX working under Snow Leopard)

Apps that didn't work:

• The T-Mobile web 'n' walk USB Stick app (a horrible app that I don't use anyway; crashes on launch)

Overall, I have to say that apps just seem to work and, if anything, the OS feels snappier.

However, do see my note about the WiFi and 3G USB stick issues I had with Snow Leopard (and a workaround that may help).

Comments

• did you happen to compile any of your flash apps in Flash CS3?

  by corbanb on 2009-08-28 18:09:55

• Many of the Creative Suite product teams did similar quick checks of basic compatibility (see Nack, Galvan et al). But an actual set of diagnostics across the range of possible configurations and feature combinations takes, literally, weeks of specialist time. jd/adobe

  by John Dowdell on 2009-08-28 18:18:10

• Having a lot or problems with CS3 on Snow Leopard. Illustrator crashes everytime it is launched. Also not able to install CS3 upgrades.

  by lizard on 2009-09-10 12:37:44

• Hi Aral - Just wondering as flex 3 is not on the list - did you get a chance to try it? regards - k

  by Karim on 2009-08-28 14:27:50

• [...] not supporting CS3 on Snow Leopard’ mantra that everyone’s chanting right now, CS3 apps appear to be working fine under Snow Leopard. They are just not [...]

  by A Review of the Snow Leopard Reviews | Smoking Apples on 2009-08-28 16:57:38

• Parallels 3.0 doesn't appear to work. I get "You can't use this version of the application Parallels Desktop with this version of Mac OS X" These appear to run fine as well: FDT 3 Enterprise Skitch (with an update) Flash/Photoshop/Fireworks CS4 Tweetdeck Cha-Ching v1.2.3 Microsoft's Remote Desktop client for Mac MAMP Pro v1.7.2 Cornerstone SVN client

  by Tim McLeod on 2009-08-29 05:03:08

• Has anyone tried Fireworks CS3? It's the only Adobe app that I have and would like to know if it works before upgrading to Snow Leopard.

  by Graeme on 2009-08-30 00:45:58

• You know VLC went 1.0 a few weeks ago?

  by Ross M Karchner on 2009-08-30 23:29:50

• meeeeee tooo lizard! have been trying for two days of not being able to send the illustrator (cs3) files i saved to pdf; mail crashes when attaching them; even tried to yousendit and safari crashed, a lot. now cant even open illustrator; and have reinstalled slow leopard, and now erasing whole hard drive and starting again. but its not a problem, apparently.

  by brc on 2009-09-23 07:11:23

• oh and i cant install cs3 upgrades either.

  by brc on 2009-09-23 07:12:48

• A quick update: iAlertU crashes after a few moments when the alarm is triggered on Snow Leopard, making it not that useful!

  by Aral on 2010-01-01 12:52:39

• @graeme To say fireworks cs3 on snow leopard is unstable would be a massive understatement, it normally crashes on me 3 or 4 times a day. Bruce Bowman from Adobe has said that they are not planning to produce a patch.

  by 555 on 2010-02-24 17:38:40