Apple today released OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 which is recommended for all Mavericks users. It improves the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac.
This update:
• Fixes an issue that prevented some Macs from automatically connecting to known Wi-Fi networks
• Fixes issue causing the background or Apple logo to appear incorrectly on startup
• Improves the reliability of waking from sleep
• Includes Safari 7.0.5
For detailed information about the security content of this update, see Apple security updates.
MacDailyNews Take: Schnappy!
When my free operating system gives me free updates I want to dance!
I’ll wait for the COMBO.
You want fries and a drink with your OS update?
——RM
See below! I posted the link.
As per usual the STUPID documentation team at Apple is way behind reality, NOT posting 10.9.4 to the Apple downloads page until gawd knows when. If I was their boss, watch out!
I have noticed my system is freezing more often of late (since the last update). Quite frankly, I would be happy to pay for a more reliable OS. I have 2 Apple HD screens attached to a MBPro with many many Safari windows so I am keeping my fingers crossed for the Safari update to make things more reliable.
I have had fewer freezes of late. I found Safari to be the big culprit. Like you I tend to have many many windows and tabs open, and eventually the whole system gets choked for resources.
Keeping Safari tabs down to a reasonable number (or at least less unreasonable) makes a big difference.
I suspect freezes are related to specific hardware specs. But I can say that I have not had a freeze on my 2011 Mac Mini server since I can remember! Solid baby!
You’ve got problems that need some troubleshooting. I have never had a single system freeze in the last five years, except one that I caused by doing something stupid. I use both of my Macs for things such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Parallels, and other memory and CPU hogging apps. Neither system has given me any trouble.
It may not have happened to you, but it does happen. There’s even a dialog that will come up some of the time informing the user that system resources are exhausted and you must kill some apps to keep going. It gives a list and a kill button. Other times there’s not sufficient resources for even that, and instead the system just freezes.
It’s not easy to do, but it can be done. I tend to get very lazy about closing Safari windows and tabs, and over time might have several hundred open. When I stopped doing that the freezes also stopped.
Proof that some people are the causes behind their own I.T. problems.
Yes, just like you I did something “stupid”. Except that a single app should never be able to take down the whole system. And unlike you, I don’t take the position that if something isn’t happening to me then it’s not a problem for anyone.
several HUNDRED Safari tabs?
Jeez, I thought it was bad having six or seven open at once.
Well, these things tend to pile up after a few months of up time 🙂
How can that possibly be useful!? Isn’t that what bookmarks are for?
I’m not defending it. I’m just saying that’s what happens.
Anybody find the link to the combo updater yet? I can’t find it at Apple Support Downloads.
Mac Rumors has the Link for Combo.
BELOW Below below
My only problem recently has been AirPlay. It will connect for screen but NOT for sound. Only fix i’ve found is restarting. We’ll see what happens now.
The Terminal command mentioned in this link lets you restore sound to Airplay without restarting the entire computer:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=16154025&postcount=10
files associated with VLC are not associated anymore
What app replaced VLC for the formerly associated files, and what file format become disassociated?
Honestly. File delinquency these days! 😉
The usual advice for newbies:
1) Repair your boot volume before installing the update.
2) YES, repair your permissions before the update, and ignore anyone saying otherwise.
3) Download and install the COMBO update, not the regular update, as it will potentially clean up any stuff that’s become corrupted in your system.
Here’s the Combo 10.9.4 download link:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1755
Awesome Derek. I always do the COMBO! 🙂
Derek, great ‘usual advice for newbies’ and some forgetful pros perhaps,
I do a similar pre-update routine in Windows
and it made preventative maintenance sense / logic to do it on Macs too
Maybe that’s why I’ve had zero issues with both systems for years,
and certain it’s not luck, or magic hardware 😉
I use a MacBook Pro 10.9.4. How do I close Safari TABS? There must be one hundred tabs on my Mac. There used to be hidden stars. When I hovered over a tab, the star appeared and I could click on it to remove that tab. I no longer have any stars (or any icon) to click on for deleting tabs. I checked preferences and it talks about bookmarks. I want to keep pages that I have bookmarked. I want to delete TABS. I pulled down every menu and searched Help and found nothing about deleting/closing tabs. Please HELP!!