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OmniWeb - 5.5 beta 4

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All Time:	(3.7)
Version 5.5 beta 4:	(4.0)
Selected Version:	5.5 beta 4
Release Date:	2006-08-24
License:	Beta
Downloads (version 5.5 beta 4):	1,626
Downloads (all versions):	611,534
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:

Further improvements to ad blocking to bring it inline with 5.1.3..
Pages without titles will now display their URL if no other title can be found for them.
Links with Anchors will now properly update the history list, and display in the address bar with their anchor.
OmniWeb will no longer display a window on launch when "Present a window when OmniWeb starts" is unchecked.
Added a new hidden default 'OWLoadTimeout' which specifies how many seconds to wait before timing out. The default value is 180 seconds (3 minutes).
Be aware that the granularity of this preference isn't as fine as we would like. Setting it to '1' will not cause pages to immediately time out, for example.
Network Activity window now tracks activity from RSS Feeds and bookmarks, so users can see what is updating, and stop any tasks that are unwanted.
Links selected via Select Next/Select Previous Link now highlight, and are scrolled to.
Links are now highlighted when clicked, this is controlled by "highlight links when clicked" in the HTML Display preference pane.
Clicking on an RSS feed now displays the Subscribe to News Feed sheet instead of displaying the raw content.
Added Type-ahead link finding.
OmniWeb should no longer cache the default WebKit icon favicon for sites with their own icons.
We now restore vertical scroll position when loading workspaces.
For a complete list of all changes in OmniWeb beta 4, please see the release notes.

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4.6 or later

Feedback Summary:

Version 5.5 beta 4:
Overall Rating:	(4.0)	Features:	(4.5)	Support:	(5.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(3.0)	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

(0 of 1 users found this comment useful)

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.