More about the Nicholaz client on the Mac that I mentioned yesterday. I've blurred lots of stuff for privacy's sake, but you can see the old style friends window, and yes there's a friends button and Cntl-Shift-F toggles the window too. You can make your IM window long and thin. The audio button has moved out so you don't lose it behind the inventory if you have a full height inventory window.
Prims that are slow to load - that one prim in the bridge columns is ALWAYS slow to load, are still slow to load, but, and completely unexpectedly I get a roughly 15% increase in client FPS at each of several places I know well.Installing the patch is really easy too. Get the disc image, make sure your client version is the only one in a folder, run the client, use File>Open to choose the folder. It took seconds to run, and that was all there was to it.
Thank you to Nicholaz and Barney!
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