Comments on: Getting Quicksilver to Jive With Snow Leopard

By: Mirjam

Mirjam — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:41:07 +0000

Glad I got Quicksilver working again, thanks! To me, the following plugins made it crash:
- airport
- file tagging
- services menu

The other 89 (how did I get so much :-p ?) plugins are working perfectly (including text and image manipulation).

By: utz

utz — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:44:19 +0000

I really wish abracadabra plugin is ported to other similar apps as well. It’s the only reason I used Quicksilver and I just can’t be bother doing all these things to make Quicksilver work only to worry everytime a Mac OS update comes out. Not worth it.

By: Christoff

Christoff — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:29:06 +0000

Thanks a million, the support guy upgraded my computer when I was on vacation and bricked a bunch of stuff. This was super helpful. Working as good as new now!!

By: John Macpherson

John Macpherson — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:40:31 +0000

Thanks for this post, it my case it was the Airport plugin that was crashing QS.

By: Ashok

Ashok — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:11:41 +0000

Hi,

Just following up to Anand comment re: iChat module.

Anyone get it to work properly? Most of it works for me but when enter text and choose “IM to Account” nothing happens. Does “IM to Account” work for anyone else?

Thanks.

By: Dario

Dario — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:29:59 +0000

I owe you a beer or two

By: Rolando

Rolando — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:59:50 +0000

Thanks. Great Help!

By: Anand

Anand — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:34:20 +0000

I have tried the iChat module, however could not get that to work. I want to launch chat with a contact using quicksilver.
If that is not possible, please let me know what is the utility of ichat module.

By: netling2

netling2 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:22:39 +0000

Thanks for the post! Made me try again – and it works!
The airport plugin didn’t work for me either.
Here are the plugins which do work on my MBP with snowleopard 10.6.1:

Apple Address Book Module.qsplugin
Apple Mail Module.qsplugin
Bluetooth Module.qsplugin
Calculator Module.qsplugin
Chat Support.qsplugin
Dictionary Module.qsplugin
Email Support.qsplugin
Firefox Module.qsplugin
iCal Module.qsplugin
iChat Module.qsplugin
iPhoto Module.qsplugin
iTunes Module.qsplugin
Music Support.qsplugin
Safari Module.qsplugin
Spotlight Module.qsplugin

Greetings

By: ...

... — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:38:20 +0000

Thanks for the article; Quicksilver is now working for me. One or two of the plugins were causing the problem.

By: Carl

Carl — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:22:45 +0000

The above method doesn’t work for me. I finally manage QS to work with SL using method in this web: http://bit.ly/2l6Ae

By: Robin Scanlon

Robin Scanlon — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:08:20 +0000

Thank you for your post. I’m so hooked on Quicksilver that I don’t like working on a computer that doesn’t have it installed. Really appreciated finding this.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:25:45 +0000

I found that the Services menu plugin causes a crash a while after launching.

Of the two plugins I tested, the Text Manipulation Actions could cause QS to hang, and the Calculator Module does not function.

My guess is that the text input method is busted.

By: Percy

Percy — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:41:24 +0000

Thanks for this post. The only plugin I had was the Address Book one, and already it seems to be a bit more responsive… Let’s hope that was the only thing.

By: swclough

swclough — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:58:05 +0000

Hmm. I erased my hard drive and did a clean install of Snow Leopard. I then used Time Machine to restore my files, settings, and apps, and Quicksilver (the old “non SL” build ) is working just fine. Of course, I use mostly basic plugins. I’m too scared to update to the SL version after all the problems I’ve heard.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:34:37 +0000

You are my hero.

I upgraded to 10.6 on my first machine yesterday afternoon, and then set it to backup while I played on the laptop (which hasn’t been upgraded yet). Stepped over to the iMac this morning, went to open Firefox and … horrors … QS was “missing.”

After “struggling” through the process of finding my Firefox app, googling “quicksilver and snow leopard,” and opening the first hit (yours), half an hour ago … well, you’re my hero.

I check you on …

AirPort Module.qsplugin
Services Menu Module.qsplugin

And don’t check you on …

Text Manipulation Actions.qsplugin
Image Manipulation Actions.qsplugin

Well, installing them doesn’t crash my QS, anyway, but then again, I don’t use them.

Yes, the interfaces are a problem, but really, I don’t mind the little bit of trash at the top of my favorite cube. It doesn’t effect performance.

Thanks for posting this fix on the very day when I needed it.