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..and why buy this when the best web browsers out there are free?? Firefox, IE, Safari… how do you standout against these monster browsers? well, make it ALSO free. you might be the next best browser featured in a magazine! people love free stuffs. if this is free, then people will love you.

MAN, FINALLY!

I thought you guys forgot you had this product! I switched to two other browsers in the meantime, here's hoping for the best. ;)

The widgets *do* look better than before. And the annoying text behavior in the search box is gone.

Oh…and then there is the whole “ridiculously fast” thing.

You guys really did a great job with this. Onto OmniWeb 6! :)

Rachael: This is great news indeed :-) All the goodness of a new version without even having to work for it (well, for the localization at least ;-) ).

Thanks!

Good news indeed.

I strongly disagree with Steve. I've worked with Safari (2.x builds are slow, lacking so convenient features like the Workspaces), Firefox (I believe the Mac port of this app has been flubbed severely), Opera (feels as a foreign object in my hands). The OmniWeb is hands-down full-fledged browser with the very best UI ever. I love the Workspaces (can't work without them). To me, OmniWeb has become a top-notch standard. Sure it's buggy (JavaScript issues on 5.5.4), but it's so ergonomic. There's no real competition for this product, aparat from Safari 3.0 so extensively integrated with the Leopard. Paying the mere twenty-sth bucks is defintiely justifiable, at least it was in my case.

I disagree !

I buy Omniweb, because it's nice, good and has great features.

hoping to a future omniweb 6 with the best of new ideas of safari 3 and firefox anti-pub and others ideas from Omnigroup.

Oooh, shiny.

Are you making any money off Google searches yet, like Safari?

http://tinyurl.com/2373v4

See “Safari for Windows” section.

It looks like you aren't (at least on my 5.5), but I may have changed a setting somewhere…

Just wanted to add another thanks; the sites I had been having so much trouble with in 5.5 (mostly newspaper classified sites, where I would need to search for RFQ/RFP information for clients) has been fixed—the search works fine now. Thanks Joel & Co., it's great not to have to open Firefox for just these couple of sites.

And to the initial comment in the thread; I gladly paid for OW and would do it again. It's still the browser I recommend to all Mac users I consult to.

Could somebody tell me how to use the web inspector? I can't find it.

for more information on the web inspector please see this forum post:

http://forums.omnigroup.com/showpost.php?p=16230&postcount=16

Excellent! Thanks.

Oh, and here I had just switched to Firefox this very day because of a certain bug. Nice to see my favourite browser back.

At least OmniGroup isn't getting ripped off to the extent that Panic! is.

http://www.panic.com/extras/ripoff/

[...] So macht Surfen auf dem Mac wirklich Spaß. Und Bloggen auch, aber dazu später. Durch einen Bericht beim Christoph, dem alten Browserholic, bin ich auf den neuen Sneaky Peek von OmniWeb 5.6 aufmerksam geworden. Neue (Beta-)Versionen dieses Browser gab es ja bereits öfters, seit dem ich ihn gekauft hatte, doch so richtig anfreunden konnte ich mich mit ihm bis dato noch nicht so recht. Das Killerargument war diesmal jedoch die Funktionalität des TinyMCE-Editors von WordPress und die Integration des Web Inspectors. Beim Arbeiten mit dem Browser zeigt sich noch ein dritter und entscheidener Punkt. Das Teil ist so schnell, dass man meint, man spürt einen Luftzug beim Surfen. Dagegen ist der neue Safari eine Lachnummer. Wenn bedenkt, dass dieser sneaky Peek erhaschende Blick lediglich eine Alpha Version ist, kann man noch eine Menge erwarten. Einzig ein wenig aufhübschen musste ich meinen neuen Freund noch. Das OmniWeb Theme von Hicksdesign lässt die Buttons nicht ganz so bunt daher kommen. [...]

OmniWeb now works with the web app I use most: Joyent Connector. Wonderful.

I'm a bit confused about the OmniWeb strategy. It seems like this product has the potential to be the “loss leader” for OmniGroup.

You guys have so many terrific products that must be generating significant revenue. Why not make the web browser free and use it to attract interest to your other (better) products.  As much as I like OmniWeb, I refuse to pay for it, because I view it as another form of vendor lock-in (even at the low price). Who is going to build meaningful plugins for it a la Firefox (or even Safari)?

What the community needs is a standards-compliant browser like Firefox with the user experience of Safari/OmniWeb (both of which need tons of improvement in terms of standards compliance, especially their JavaScript/ECMAScript implementations). Sadly, OmniGroup et al seems resigned to “leaving it to Apple”.

Good luck, Guys.

A little PS/Tip for Alpha testers, while trying Sneaky Peek, go to Software Update preferences of browser (Omniweb) and set it to check updates DAILY rather than weekly default. It really checks daily, e.g. it won't check 30 times if you reboot 30 times unlike amateurly written applications.

I would really like to see a “new tab” button that you can put in the main toolbar.  I never saw anything like that anywhere.  It would be really cool to see some updated icons or be able to customize them (similar to firefox) Just somethings that would make me want to buy it.

We have a family license and use OmniWeb along with Safari 3.0, and, less and less, Firefox. Opera? No thanks.

[...] dazu später. Durch einen Bericht beim Christoph, dem alten Browserholic, bin ich auf den neuen Sneaky Peek von OmniWeb 5.6 aufmerksam geworden. Neue (Beta-)Versionen dieses Browser gab es ja bereits [...]