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OmniWeb - 5.1 beta 5

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All Time:	(3.7)
Version 5.1 beta 5:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	5.1 beta 5
Release Date:	2004-12-17
License:	Beta
Downloads (version 5.1 beta 5):	3,495
Downloads (all versions):	611,495
Price:	$29.95

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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:

Highlights

When adding a new label in Gmail, a blank page would appear instead of the expected JavaScript dialog for specifying the name for the label. This has been fixed.
Corrected problems with some input methods and our URL autocompletion. We no longer try to autocomplete until the system has produced a character from user input.

Display

Corrected an issue that could cause text on some pages to render slightly smaller or larger than intended.
Corrected a problem that could cause pages that use non-Latin text encoding (such as Japanese) to render blank under Mac OS X 10.2.
Page elements that use the CSS background color 'transparent' will now render as such, instead of having a white background.

Bookmarks

Several fixes were made to bookmark synchronization for better reliability and improved handling of errors.
Selecting an updated bookmark from the dock menu now obeys your preference for opening in the same tab, a new tab, or a new window.

JavaScript

Corrected issues where onchange events for form elements were not being correctly fired, breaking some online calculators.

History

Web pages and pages that contain IFRAME elements that automatically refresh will no longer add a history entry every time they do so.

Workspaces

Added a safeguard against an issue some users were seeing in low-memory situations that could cause workspace files to become corrupted.

Java

We now correctly register MIME types from the Cocoa Java Plug-in so that pages which test for these MIME types will correctly determine that the browser can handle them. This fixes .

Other Changes

Corrected a rare problem that could occur when working with pages that contain forms where the browser window would essentially freeze and not allow input into forms or switching between tabs.
We no longer escape the pipe (vertical bar) character in URLs. Even though escaping that special character - which is not allowed in URLs - is correct behavior according to RFC2396, many web applications and scripts (especially web page counters) expect the character to not be escaped and do not correctly translate the escaped representation when they see it. This fixes many web page counters as well as links on lycos.de.

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 5.1 beta 5:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(5.0)	Support:	(5.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(4.5)	Price:	(4.0)

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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

(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)

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.