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I was using IE and Safari on my Mac (OS X 10.3.1) the other day and noticed a couple of things that are really bothersome.

First, if you bring up an IE or Safari window, and then while the page loads you pull down the File menu, the page stops loading - until you let the menu go. So, there's got to be some kind of single threading that blocks the window rendering while the menu is being used. Just to see if this was the case on other OSes, I did the same thing - and the result was what I expected. The other browser windows rendered while I had the File menu opened. This appears to be a problem across all browsers within OS X. Now I wonder if other applications block window processing threads like this as well.

The second peculiarity is with the Safari browser. I had 2 browser windows open, and while one was open I used one of the shortcuts to move me to a new URL. I then quickly switched to the other window, and behold - THAT window (one with no menu or shortcut bar, because it was running a Java applet) redirected to the URL that I asked the other window to go to. Very strange.

So, it's apparent to me that there are some underpinnings in the OS that don't provide for good multi-tasking AND have some kind of problem in their message queue in delivering messages to the right window.

I'd like to hear from other Mac OS X users to see if they've experienced anything like this, or have any comments on this topic. Very interesting indeed ...