I have praised this application before. It can be a timesaver. I miss its lack of hotkey support, where I can type 1 key to launch an application I use frequently. Quicksilver, Butler, DragThing all have this very handy feature that should be in LaunchBar. It is a launcher, right?

That's old news. What I find troublesome currently is the application's sluggish performance. Sometimes, I hit command-space, type a few chars, and up comes my requested application. Other times, and rather frequently, I do the same thing and wait what seems like an eternity for LaunchBar to respond. I have the cataloging set to once a day, to minimize the overhead of that process. Activity Monitor says my machine is loafing (MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz). Manually switching to the app I want is instantaneous.

The part that I find most concerning is support from the developer. I contacted their support staff about a week ago regarding the problems I'm having, and have received no response. Perhaps I'm doing something that affects the performance of LB. Perhaps there's a setting on LB I should use. Who knows?

I have quit LB and am relying on one of the many other launcher apps for now. LB is terrific when it works right. It doesn't work right, right now. It's outa here.