Just downloaded a Camino nightly build, and I noticed that Camino’s also picked up the Cairo work that’s been going into the Firefox nightlies lately. This is good news for those that like having a Gecko browser but want something a little more OS X-y than Firefox is. Looks like the days of crappy font rendering in OS X Gecko are slowly coming to an end 
So I’m sitting here, wondering why my system takes a long time to login and eventually noticing that something call “update_prebinding” is the cause of it. Two instances of this program, in fact, one running under PPC and the other under Intel. The symptoms? After logging in, my system would be doing a whole lot of disk churning for about 5 minutes, inexplicably.
After a quick google search, I happened upon this MacRumors Forum thread (who knew they were good for anything?). The poster describes my exact symptoms and then goes on to say that uninstalling something called “Application Enhancer” fixes it.
Being a frequent reader of Daring Fireball, I remember vague things about Application Enhancer – mainly that it’s not all that good. That’s okay though, because I would never install anything like APE to my system – I’m too careful!
Lo and behold, once I check my /System folder (thanks Spotlight!), I find an ApplicationEnhancer.bundle located somewhere in the depths of the folder. How did it get there? I’ve no clue. My best guess is that some app that I use (yet to be determined) installed it on its own without telling me, and I’m left to pick up the pieces when I’m figuring out why my login times take so damn long.
Just a helpful little tidbit for those of you who might be wondering why your OS X system is taking extra long to log in.
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