But if you're Cmd+Tabbing between your two apps, the Finder is always the 3rd icon and you never get to it.<p>You'll literally never accidentally tab into the Finder unless you press Cmd+Tab,Tab -- which is awfully hard to do by accident.<p>The author says Finder "has an insatiable thirst for keystrokes". I say accidentally Cmd+Tabbing into the Finder is one of the strangest complaints about OSX I've ever come across.
When I'm using an application that freezes with a spinning pinwheel, I can Cmd + tab to the Finder and get to the Force Quit utility in the Apple menu. While it's true that I can switch to any other running application and do the same, I find it comforting that the Finder will always be there if I have only one app open and it freezes on me.<p>[Yes, I realize there's also a keyboard shortcut for Force Quit, but I don't know what those symbols even stand for, since they're not on my keyboard (except for that Cmd 4-leaf clover thingy), so I can't type them here, and won't be able to look them up if I'm stuck in a frozen app with no way out.]<p>There are a lot of reasons to hate the Finder, but I don't feel like this is one of them.
Thank you for posting this, it had always bothered me. The other problem I have with the task switcher is switching to minimised applications does nothing. Anyone have a similar fix for that?<p>Edit: On Lion the path is slightly different from the one in the article, it's /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Info.plist
Why do I keep getting the following message when I use sudo?: "You don’t own the file “Info.plist” and don’t have permission to write to it. You can duplicate this document and edit the duplicate. Only the duplicate will include your changes."<p>I'm running Lion 10.7.3