Via Betalogue
“I don’t know exactly when this improvement was introduced. I don’t remember noticing it before today, and I have had crashes in Snow Leopard before, so it cannot have been in Snow Leopard itself, i.e. in Mac OS X 10.6.0. It might have been introduced in Mac OS X 10.6.1 or Mac OS X 10.6.2. I also need to experience a few more crashes in order to confirm that it does indeed happen every time.
Out of curiosity, I just made a slight change in my window setup and then option-clicked on the Finder’s Dock icon and chose “Relaunch,” and the slight change that I had just made was not preserved when the Finder was relaunched. It returned to the previous state, i.e. the state that was correctly preserved when the kernel panic happened.
As far as I can tell, using this “Relaunch” command is the equivalent of force-quitting the Finder, which should mimic what happens in the event of a crash.”
They say sometimes you have to actually notice things to appreciate them. It felt so natural I didn’t even notice it.
