Google Desktop 1.0.1.126 released: Speed improvements, memory usage reduction
The latest version of Google's Mac OS X desktop client offers speed improvements as well as a reduct memory footprint.
Google Desktop 1.0.1.126 for Mac OS X has been released, resolving many of the speed and memory footprint issues extant in the initial release.
Specific enhancements include:
- Speed of re-crawl (after restart) by about 20%
- Memory use when quickly indexing a lot of data by compressing it until we can process it
- Handling of UTF8 in Gmail
- Support for datefrom: and dateto: query restricts
- Display of search results when a document has been moved or renamed
- Performance when indexing has been turned off in preferences
- Detection of command-command key to reduce chances of activating it by accident
- Thumbnails for image files in the Web UI
Bug fixes include:
- Duplicate and spam email messages were re-crawled.
- Spotlight Privacy settings on external volumes, FileVault, and ~/Library/Mail were not respected.
- Real-time events on external volumes were ignored.
- Certain large fonts (eg, Devangari) would cause alignment issues when displaying results.
- Quick Search box could be hidden behind the menu bar and where it would fade in after the helper window on first launch.
- Web history in Firefox and Camino would crash when the display was set to anything other than 32-bit color.
- "Alive/Update" ping was not always sent; Now it is sent per the Privacy Policy.
In order to install Google Desktop 1.0.1.126, you must use the Google Updater application, available as a 1 MB download.
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