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OmniWeb 5.6 now available!

by Troy on October 24, 2007

Okay okay. I admit it. If you've been following along with our sneaky peeks during 5.6 development there isn't a whole lot new here. But I must take this opportunity to thank all of you testers out there because none of this would be possible without you.

But! If you haven't been running the sneaky peeks, this little bit of news that OmniWeb 5.6 is now totally complete and ready for your downloading slash browsing slash enjoying pleasure may be just the bit of news you need to top your day! New updated rendering engine (about a year and a half of development has gone into this thanks to the WebKit crew). Inline PDF support, Web Inspector, support for the Drosera JavaScript debugger, improved JavaScript and plug-in support are all there. Bug fixes to syncing the UI and bookmarks, crashes and other stability issues have been corrected. We've even made sure that upgrading to leopard will go smoothly for you. So if you've experienced some performance problems, have had trouble displaying pages or, you know, plan to upgrade your OS this Friday…

Go give it a try! Download and release notes can be found here.

 

Comments

[...] von Leopard und das Verschieben von Tabs finde ich spitze), aber ich liebäugele auch mit der frisch vorgestellten Version 5.6 von OmniWeb. Ich finde die Tabs von OmniWeb immer noch die beste und übersichtlichste Implementierung und [...]

MobileMacs » Blog Archive » Browserwec

10.25.07 5:23 AM

Thanks for this release, will test it.

Favorite Browser

10.25.07 7:10 AM

*sniff, sniff*


I remember buying my boxed copy of OmniWeb 5 back when Tiger came out two and a half years ago.


So….on to OmniWeb 6, right?

Chad

10.25.07 12:17 PM

Ugh.  I don't want to view PDF's inline.


Is there any esoteric preference to turn off inline PDF viewing?


Otherwise, 5.6 is nice.

Chucky

10.25.07 6:04 PM

Yes, in a terminal window run:


defaults write com.omnigroup.OmniWeb5 WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool true

Troy

10.26.07 5:02 AM

Thx, Troy.


You folks rock.  Viva Omni.


And I'll note that I'm experiencing significantly lower RAM and CPU usage with many open tabs in 5.6 than in 5.5.2.

Chucky

10.26.07 7:49 AM

Are the OmniGroupers working on full support for Spaces (virtual desktops)? Currently, all OmniWeb windows have to be on one space.

Daniel J. Wilson

10.27.07 6:16 AM

We'll be looking at further integration with spaces in 6.0. I don't know exactly what options will be there though.

Troy

10.27.07 6:37 AM

I have used and loved the previous omniweb for 6 months or so. Smokin' fast, easy to navigate, only time I've ever paid for a browser, but worth it.

I downloaded the new version 2 days ago.

I don't know what happened, but it really is disappointing. My browsing is much, much slower. I do a lot of mail/USPS online and the new Omni won't download the post office PDF's at all(???), my yahoo email takes FOREVER to navigate.

I want my old Omniweb back! If it matters I have a G5 Imac on OS 10.4.10.

Please know that I'm not a person always looking for what's wrong, and I really expected this version to be even better than the one I already liked.

really bummed.

IS THERE ANY WAY FOR ME TO ACCESS THE PREVIOUS VERSION?

Just until the kinks are worked out?

This version overwrote my old one, but I did buy a code, so I'm hoping to re-download that version.


Please help.


Matt

matt

10.30.07 10:30 AM

I'm getting instant crash of OmniWeb on Leopard. It loads the previously open tabs, and then beachballs.

Warren

10.31.07 8:45 AM

To Matt and Warren: Please contact us at our support address at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and we'll try to work through your problems as quickly as possible.


Warren, try holding shift at launch to open a new blank workspace that doesn't include your tabs and see if that works.

troy

10.31.07 10:51 AM

Cool, that solved it. Thanks!

Warren

10.31.07 11:29 AM

I must admit I was getting angry at you for not releasing a new version sooner, for not fixing the bugs and crashes I had and for not implementing my feature requests.

But today, I downloaded the update and tried it. I right clicked on an image, open image in new window, and there it is, the window title shows the image dimensions :) Globally, Omniweb seems to perform better.

Well, thank you for 1. fixing all those bugs, 2. implementing SOME of my feature requests (Command+Shift+Left arrow in textarea still should not direct me to homepage but select to beginning of line instead…).

Bertrand Mansion

11.12.07 7:21 PM
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