Mavericks introduces some new features, but new bugs and annoyances come along for the ride.
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Brand-new software is rarely perfect, and the latest version of OS X is no exception. While Mavericks ushers in a number of desirable features and improvements to the operating system, those features don't always work exactly as advertised. Now that the software has been out for about a month, we thought we'd round up our most pressing gripes, in part to bring them to your attention, and also because complaining can be pretty cathartic.
Not-so-smooth scrolling
When Mavericks' new responsive scrolling feature is working as designed, it draws sections of your window that aren't yet on screen so that they show up more quickly when you scroll down (or up). In apps that have implemented the feature (Tweetbot for Mac is one), scrolling is, in fact, pretty smooth. Unfortunately, the feature seems to have broken scrolling for other programs.
I notice the problem most often in Chrome, Outlook 2011, and the Limechat IRC client—those are the three applications I spend the biggest part of may day in, though they should be representative of many other third-party applications. Gentle scrolling through pages or through my inbox is fine, but scrolling at higher speed becomes quite jerky and inconsistent. This is behavior I never noticed in Mountain Lion on the same computer ( which is a 27-inch 2012 iMac with a dedicated GeForce GTX 680MX GPU and 2GB of video RAM—specs definitely aren't the problem). Tweetbot did the same thing before its recent update to version 1.4, so hopefully other developers will get their applications updated soon.
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