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OmniWeb - 5.7

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All Time:	(3.7)
Version 5.7:	(3.8)
Selected Version:	5.7
Release Date:	2008-04-09
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 5.7):	5,299
Downloads (all versions):	611,463
Price:	$14.95

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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:

General

OmniWeb is now based on the WebKit stability branch roughly equivalent to the version used by Safari 3.0. (Updating to the version of WebKit in use by Safari 3.1 is in the works.)
On first launch your favicon database location will be set to our custom default. Favicons may initially disappear, but should now persist between launches/restarts once repopulated.
Use Leopard's new code signing technology to sign OmniWeb, so you can be prompted just once to give OmniWeb access to your keychain (rather than being prompted each time you download a new version).
Images blocked by ad-blocking and then loaded, will no longer show the blocked image badge.
Refetching in the source view will once again refetch the page's source content from the server, rather than just reverting to the content from the corresponding browser window.
Pages with framesets should now draw properly.
Some blocked content (such as Flash plugins) were getting their "blocked image" placeholder drawn in the lower left-hand corner of the window.
Ad blocking should no longer prevent Javascript redirects.
License files will no longer be created with the "execute" permission enabled. (The files were never actually executable.)

Interface

We now display these release notes on launch if they've changed since they were last viewed.
Most toolbar icons have been updated for Leopard.
JavaScript will no longer show the toolbar if it's normally hidden.
When downloads are in progress, OmniWeb will now prompt to ask whether you want to quit or continue downloading.
The Load All Images button in the status bar should now display for blocked content on the current page. When pressed it should load blocked content and disappear
Added "Mail Contents of This Page" to the File menu. (Also renamed the neighboring "Send Link" menu item to "Mail Link to This Page".)
Added checkbox in the Display preference panel to decide whether to display PDF's inline, or download.
When Software Update finds an update with the same major version as the currently licensed application (e.g. OmniWeb 5.x), it should now correctly indicate that the update price is free.
The license window will no longer continue to display "No license available" after a license is added.

Localizations

Updated Chinese, French, Italian and Japanese localizations.
Fixed an issue where drop-down menus in the preferences were changing their widths inappropriately, making localized versions hard to read.
General localization tidying.

PDF Display

When Pressing the Back button while viewing a PDF should actually take you back now.
While viewing PDFs, the download button available on the HUD display will now download the PDF to your default location.
PDFs should now always get the proper context menu.

Performance and Stability

Fixed a crash triggered by attempting to undo after closing a tab or loading another page in the current tab. (Each tab now has its own independent undo stack, and the undo stack is cleared each time a tab loads a page.)
Fixed a crash sometimes seen when closing tabs (which could also happened when restoring a workspace from a snapshot or quitting).
Reduce OmniWeb's memory footprint and CPU usage by only rendering tab thumbnails when they're needed rather than rendering a thumbnail every time a page updates whether or not it's currently being displayed anywhere.
Worked around a bug on PowerPC's running 10.5 which sometimes caused a hang when manually checking for updates.
Fixed a crash that could occur when using Load All Images.

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

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.0
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS Classic

Feedback Summary:

Version 5.7:
Overall Rating:	(3.8)	Features:	(4.5)	Support:	(4.5)
Ease of Use:	(4.0)	Quality / Stability:	(2.8)	Price:	(3.2)

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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

(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.