Publisher's Description
From The Omni Group:
OmniWeb is a full-featured native web browser for Mac OS X. Highly multi-threaded and written using Apple's advanced Cocoa frameworks, OmniWeb is designed to provide you with the best user experience you'll find in a web browser. We think it's important to polish every user interaction to make sure that the browser acts the way you want it to--so you can stop thinking about the application you're using and just get at the information you want, quickly. (If you don't like anything about OmniWeb's user experience, please let us know!)
What's new in this version:
- OmniWeb 4.5 beta 1 incorporates the open source WebCore and JavaScriptCore frameworks from Apple Computer Inc., bringing greatly improved support for the latest Internet standards like CSS, HTML, XHTML, and JavaScript to the award-winning browser.
- This release includes numerous other enhancements as well as many bug fixes. Please see the complete release notes for all the details, including See all new features
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"1Password incompatibility crashes at startup in Lion"
Version: OmniWeb 5.11
Pros
It was a GREAT idea, started by a vision, a conception.
Cons
was totally unable to expand that idea adding new suggestions (and I gave MANY so, probably, not only me!)
Summary
It's sad to see the girl that you love aging becoming fat and don't caring about her look and feel.
Obsolescence is not like aging, is not 'becoming old but staying back, more like a talented boy who refused to learn and grow (or becoming a lawyer or a financer, that is about the same), wasting his potential, and I loved by his birth Omniweb like a nephew! -
"This is the best browser for OSX that I have used."
Version: OmniWeb 5.10.3
Pros
Fastest browser for OSX better than Chrome especially with streaming flash and silverlight.
Organized
EasyCons
No support for multi-touch gestures (except two finger scrolling)
Summary
I have been using macs since 1996. I have used every browser available for the mac this year constantly searching for the best one. This is it! Used to cost $ but now its free!
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"At last a browser that works with Mac PPC G4"
Version: OmniWeb 5.10.1
Pros
Fast, good add blocking,
Cons
don't like the icons, would be nicer with Safari ones, nor the side panel with the tabs
Summary
Best I've used on iBook G4
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"Under many aspects still the best"
Version: OmniWeb 5.10.2
Pros
Unique sidebar tags, search engines so easy to add, the better bookmark bar, workspaces.
Cons
Unfortunately there was a stop in development and many ideas to make the user interface better was never implemented.
Summary
The friendly responsiveness of the developers was first class in all this years!
This folk is great and deserves support and encouragement!
OmniWeb also is great and eserves supportby all, we users and .. by the developers, Ok guys? -
"New and Interesting"
Version: OmniWeb 5.10.1
Pros
I like the simplicity of the graphic user interface, the thumbnails bar, the workspace and the size of the bookmark bar, also the speed is really really good
Cons
The download window.
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"I wanted to like it"
Version: OmniWeb 5.9.2
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I really wanted to like this browser but working with blogger was just a nightmare and I use blogger a lot. It also couldn't render my blog properly which was odd. It split t into 2 tabs. No other browser does this and I test it on an browser I can get my hands on. I'm using a standard template also.
The browser is fast and has a lot of preferences that you can teak which is nice. I grew tired of being handcuffed by Safari but don't care for drawers that slide out. Not a bad thing just not for me.
With this browser becoming free and the Omni group more or less saying they're going to focus on other things, I think this long standing browsers days may be numbered.
Nice speed but the bad WYSIWYG editing was a deal breaker for me. If you don't blog, this will be a fine browser for you. Best of all, it's now free. -
"Internet Browsing Done Right, Finally!"
Version: OmniWeb 5.9.1
Pros
Quick and light on its feet.
Fully customizable for every website you go to.
Powerful ad blocker.
Renders XML, Javascript very well.Cons
Time for a real icon set makeover.
Wished it had an integrated RSS reader like Safari.Summary
I have used Omniweb in its pay form for many years. I have grown with it and cursed at older versions, but what has always brought me back, is what Darrell Knutson has always said. It is the Internet done right. Opera is weird in settings and commands, Camino from Mozilla is still slow, and Safari with a preview of version 4 looks weird and functions strange. So that leaves iCab and Firefox. iCab is a very good browser for programmers and has a great deal of features the average user will never use. Firefox on Mac is clunky, slow and bloated with google chiming in on browsing control. Really? OmniGroup has now made Omniweb free!! And with that development seems to be swifter now that they have brought on new developers. Omniweb lets loose to the community, "sneeky peeks" or betas. The latest version(s) are faster than Safari and still retain all of the functionality that has made Omniweb in my opinion, The best browser for Mac period. Give it a whirl, you won't be disappointed. I love it and recommend it to all of my fellow Mac Lovers.
Innovation, Performance, and Ingenuity. OmniWeb! Try it! -
"OmniWeb is excellent"
Version: OmniWeb 5.9.1
Pros
It's speed is comparable to Safari's and Firefox, that's the main thing that I wanted to mention and many other Pros are as listed in the OmniWeb website: http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/
Cons
It isn't compatible with Hotmail, though I suppose that is Microsoft's fault. And there are no privacy content settings available in OmniWeb that is available in Firefox and Safari, for other Cons, Google them.
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"Beta is broken"
Version: OmniWeb 5.7 Beta 1
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
This is beta software -- it ain't done, they're telling you it ain't done, if it crashes you were warned.
This is also the version that is for Leopard. This is late.
For some reason this beta is less stable then the Alpha (sneaky-peak) that was released a few days ago.
Omniweb is a Webkit browser, which means it used the same code to handle web-pages that Safari does. At least half of the issues with Omniweb that I've had are Webkit bugs -- which means they are Apple's fault. Firefox uses Geeko, Opera and iCab use their own.
Sadly, everything at Omni is great: support, customer service, ideas, everything -- except this product -- which is flaky too often. -
"Nice browser, but I don't like the Tabs"
Version: OmniWeb 5.5.4
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Overall, another quality app from the Omni Group. I've got 'em all...
The only thing I don't like, is the way that tabs are implemented. I'm not a fan of the side "drawer". Perhaps it could be that I'm just not used to it, but both Safari and Firefox have a similar tab implementation, and I wish I could customize OmniWeb to do the same thing.
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