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OmniWeb - 5.9.1

Full-featured native web browser.

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All Time:	(3.7)
Version 5.9.1:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	5.9.1
Release Date:	2009-03-12
License:	Freeware
Downloads (version 5.9.1):	2,632
Downloads (all versions):	611,465

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Product Description:

OmniWeb is a full-featured native web browser for Mac OS X. Highly multi-threaded and written using Apple's 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:

Auto-closing tab drawer: If the tab drawer was automatically opened when you created multiple tabs, it will now automatically close when you return to a single tab. (If you manually opened the tab drawer, it will stay open until you manually close it.)
Added support for three-finger swipes on recent laptops: swiping left and right goes back and forth in history; swiping up and down switches to the previous or next tab.
You can now send the current web page to OmniFocus (using its clippings service) without having to select some text on the page first. Please note that this feature requires OmniFocus 1.6 (or later).
Navigating web pages using speech recognition works once again. (Speech recognition must be turned on in System Preferences, as well as being enabled in OmniWeb's General Preferences. You can then say the name of a link to follow it, or use built-in commands link "new tab", "next tab", "go back", etc.)
Reimplemented the Summarize toolbar item.
Dragging the last tab out of a window will now close that window.
Added support for download links which use the HTTP Content-Disposition header.
Added support for the JavaScript print action (window.print()).
OmniWeb no longer displays an empty page when it receives a HTTP 204 "no content" status code. This fixes bugs with several rating systems.
Using Click-Hold to activate the context menu in browser windows is now disabled by default, since that breaks compatibility with some web pages which want to see the mouse-down event immediately (before we determine that it's actually a click-hold event). You can turn Click-Hold back on by setting the hidden ActivateContextMenuWithClickHold default.
Added Release Notes to the Help menu.
Fixed a bug where clicks would land in the wrong place if a hidden location bar was temporarily visible (because you were editing it with Command-L) and you clicked in the browser (causing it to hide again).
The Open window can now be closed by pressing the Escape key (in addition to Command-W). The window's tab cycle also now includes all its controls.
Bookmarklets are now labeled properly when dragging them to the favorites bar.
Command-Shift-Left Arrow now performs the standard text editing behavior of selecting to the beginning of a line of text, rather than taking you back to your start page.
If your navigation bar is hidden and you press Shift-Command-F to go to the search field, OmniWeb will no longer show and hide the navigation bar before showing it yet again.
Tweaked the favorites bar background.
Updated the default start pages.
Localization updates for Simplified Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Swedish.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Feedback Summary:

Version 5.9.1:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(4.5)	Support:	(4.5)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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Ad and Flash Blocking Ridiculously Byzantine - Version: 5.10.1, 8/29/2009 02:12PM PST

Mackidockie

It's not as though users haven't asked Omni for years to make ad blocking a simple Command-Click menu item, but nobody is listening. Sure, you can block ads, but the method is unnecessarily complicated compared with AdBlock on Safari or Adblock Plus on Firefox. If this feature were fixed, OmniWeb would be the browser of choice.

I wanted to like it - Version: 5.9.2, 4/4/2009 05:08PM PST

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macfan1138

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.

Go! Go! Omni Group - Version: 5.9.2, 4/1/2009 10:20PM PST

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steeldriver

Wonder of wonders! Years ago I licensed OmniWeb (don't recall its v. at that time) and liked its adaptability. But at times I went on to try other browsers and OW sat on the sidelines, except for now and then revival, such as editing HTML or testing odd page rendering in another browser. Its current superior adaptability to specific sites (setting font size, for example, at a news site that specifies small font size) coupled with speedy rendering makes OmniWeb once again my favorite browser.