What's New
- Performance improvement with processing some types of background apps, a regression introduced a decade ago and made worse by all the new sandboxed background apps in Mavericks & Yosemite. If you experienced unresponsiveness with LiteSwitch on launch, or after restarting Safari with many windows/tabs open, then this was likely the cause.
What was new in LiteSwitch 2.8.2
- Ability to use the Command-Tab hotkey on Yosemite
- Ability to add and remove itself from your login items. The “LiteSwitch X is enabled” checkbox controls this.
- Stale apps no longer appear in the switcher window. (Starting in Mavericks, the stale apps were typically special sandboxed apps hidden from the Dock that had their process type transformed, like the out-of-process open dialog in TextEdit and Preview.)
- This version of LiteSwitch only runs on OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), or later. If you use an older OS, your best best is LiteSwitch X 2.7b3 which runs best on OS X 10.5 (Leopard) to 10.8 (Mountain Lion) on Intel and PPC Macs. An even older PPC-only version that supports OS X back to 10.1 Puma is LiteSwitch X 2.5.
- Now defaults to bringing forward only the frontmost app window (my favorite setting). To change to the Dock switcher’s default of bringing forward all windows, use the Window Layering settings in the LiteSwitch Preference pane.
What was new in LiteSwitch 2.8.1
- Eliminated the registration code
- Fixed compatibility with OS X Mavericks