LaunchBar 4.3 adds Instant Open / Send and more

Ditto all the comments above re: LB. I've been using it for over a year and it "just works" the way I want it to. I've tried QS a few times and it seems slick at first but it always drives me nuts in the end and I go back to LB. An update to QS might help... If you want most of the important functionality of QS without all the headaches, the fee is well worth it.

Launchbar is defintely more stable than Quicksilver. It just doesn't crash as much.

Quicksilver also has a bug that's been around for a couple of years now, that blocks me from using it which is this:
1) make a bookmark for a network share folder (root or deeper)
2) disconnect from all network shares
3) use quicksilver to jump to that folder you just bookmarked

RESULT: it doesn't work
NOTE: it used to CRASH Quicksilver, which I don't think it does any more

But it's a huge pain, where Launchbar "just works" and is certainly worth the $30.

I'm myself a devoted QS user, but it seems it hasn't been updated in a long time and I'm getting more and more trouble with some of the plugins (social bookmark with del.icio.us, itunes and developer for exemple).

I'm a big fan of LaunchBar. I don't have much need for the more advanced features of ether LaunchBar or Quicksilver - I just want to open apps with a couple of keystrokes. I stick with Launchbar becajuse it sits so unobtrusively at the top of my screen when I call it, rather than popping up right in the middle of my workspace (the "Spotlight" interface for QS stays on the left, which I couldn't get used to after using LB for so long).

What really keeps me using LaunchBar, though, as mentioned earlier in this thread, is that it does such a good job of learning what app you want to open. I type "mp" and it'll open MacPar Deluxe for me. I type "uni" and it'll open Unison, but if I type "un" it'll open UnRarX. "pg" gets me Pages. I never have to tell it what I really wanted more than once when it predicts the wrong thing, and often it seems to adapt quicker than I do.

Apart from the whole shareware/freeware thing I've honestly never understood why people use Quicksilver. I keep trying and keep going back to LaunchBar.

I think QS has been updated from time to time. For me, the updates are when it crashes, so that's how I know it's been updated.

Maybe I'll give LaunchBar a shot.

This is probably one of those threads that could rival religious wars. ;)

It's been awhile since I've looked at Launchbar but have used QS for quite some time now on a daily basis. I've yet to see any slowdown or stability issues. That's not to say there aren't any of course but from my experience it's a little hard to swallow.

And on that note so what if it's still in beta? Plenty of software is released as a final release and is slower and/or less stable that at least what I've experienced with QS.

To each their own though. :)

I actually just switched to LaunchBar from Quicksilver. Quicksilver does have a nicer interface, but it doesn't appear to be under any sort of substantial development (it's been in beta for how long?), and I'm sick of its random slow-downs and crashes, rare as they often are.

I've been very pleasantly surprised by LaunchBar; when I tried it originally back when I was trying to decide whether or not to ditch Butler it was pretty klunky. Its interface still isn't quite as sleek as Quicksilver, but it is still quite svelte.

Launchbar is awesome... it does most of what QS does without the complex setup requirements that QS requires. The main thing that people like is, its just faster... faster at loading from boot, faster at finding stuff and just a lighter leaner program. I find that it learns what I want to open where you have to train QS to load your apps. While QS is awesome I have used LB for a few years and keep going back to it after playing with the ultra cool QS interface.