Existing users, 
Bought the software --- my only browser I've paid for.
Nothing I've complained about has been addressed.
1) Non-standard "Home" page configuration [*every other* browser has "Home" page and "New" tab/window independent of each other. In OmniWeb, if you open a new tab/window, you get your "Home" page --- if it's selected. This is STUPID]
2) Non-standard Tab arrangement [in "drawer" along side]. Although I've gotten used to it, I still prefer (as most people do, apparently) the *conventional* arrangement.
3) Memory leaks: well noted and documented.
4) Performance: Sluggish in comparison to Firefox and other *free* browsers. Good example? Bookmark toolbar. I try accessing a bookmark located there. It's a distinct and *very* noticeable delay --- especially when compared to Firefox, which I use most regularly.
5) Kludgy Bookmark filing: I have over two thousand bookmarks in scores of folders. When I want to file a *new* one, the dialogue box *always* displays my entire collection with *all* folders opened by *default.* Consequently, if I want to file a bookmark in one of the last folders, I can almost count (while *scrolling*) "one thousand one, one thousand two, one thousand three, one . . . " Inexcusable. How can free browsers perform better and be more regularly *improved?*
Again, this is the only browser I have paid for and I *should* expect more.
OmniWeb
Full-featured native web browser.
Version: 5.10.1
Still Underwhelmed
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: sohateme Saturday, January 10 2009 @ 12:54 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
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Still Underwhelmed - brianjansorge
The fact that every *other* browser *allows* for "eating your cake and having it too," should make it abundantly clear that *not* allowing for blank new tabs *and* being able to have a configurable "home" page accessible --- when *wanted* --- is the "narrow" approach.Your deciding that *everybody* should like things the way *you* do is "narrow" also, btw.
Sunday, March 01 2009 @ 02:51 AM PST
And you're from what planet?! - zunipus
Let me go down your list:1) Home page complaint: I don't see your point at all. I prefer how OmniWeb works.
2) Tab drawer complaint: I know how nice horizontal tabs can be when you open a few tabs. But no way am I giving up OmniWeb's mini-page representations in each drawer tab. No other browser has this feature, and I love it. Meanwhile, open more than a few tabs in the other browsers and you end up with a pile up of abbreviated page titles. You like that? I don't.
3) Memory leaks: No. I used Netscape starting at version 1.0. Netscape had memory leaks. It incessantly bombed as a result. Recent versions of OmniWeb very rarely bomb. OmniWeb does like to use lots of unused RAM space and virtual memory for caching when you open lots of pages. Is THAT what you're complaining about? And that would be because why?
4) Sluggish performance: Huh? Not on my MacBook 2 GHz with 3 GB of RAM. I honestly wonder if you made this one up. I clearly have more bookmarks than you have. I don't have *any* noticeable delay. I live on planet Earth.
5) Kludgy bookmark filing: No. In fact I go out of my way to make sure that I create ALL my bookmarks in OmniWeb, then I import them into my other browsers. (I keep several browsers on hand, allowing me the perspective to know that OmniWeb is the best). No other browser has as sane a bookmark system as OmniWeb. Then add to that OW's ability to sync bookmarks with my MobileMe account, useful as both a backup and a means of using those same bookmarks on other computers.
My conclusion: WTF are you ranting on about?
Saturday, March 14 2009 @ 12:45 AM PDT
Still Underwhelmed - MacGuffin
"In OmniWeb, if you open a new tab/window, you get your "Home" page --- if it's selected. This is STUPID]"Why is it stupid? I actually like this feature, especially if it's a choice.
My home page is my university's Web site. There are times while online that I need to make use of it, the library in particular. Opening a new tab that simultaneously loads what I need is much easier and faster than having to either type in the URL or go to a bookmark (of which there are already enough in my toolbar), no? Your perceived scope of other users' needs is rather narrow.
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Wednesday, February 25 2009 @ 04:46 AM PST