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New in Snow Leopard: Activity Monitor shows you exactly what is killing your CPU

Before, you’d just see that Safari was nailing your CPU. Now there’s a more specific breakdown, which shows the true culprit.  Plug-in sandboxing is good thing.  It is especially helpful when a plug-in is not responding and you want to quit it without killing your browser session (below).

 

 

This has been around for a few weeks but comes in very handy.

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