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OmniWeb 5.9.x sneaky peeks now available!

by Ken Case on March 6, 2009

In case you missed the news last week, OmniWeb is now free!

But that doesn't mean that we've stopped developing OmniWeb: we've been posting new sneaky peek builds of the upcoming OmniWeb 5.9.1 release nearly every day since that announcement.  If you hop on over to OmniWeb's sneaky peek page and check out the latest release notes, you'll see that we've added support for three-finger swipes on recent laptops, made the tab drawer automatically close when you return to a single tab, fixed the Amazon rating system bug, reimplemented speech input and the Summarize toolbar item, and more!

We've also gotten pretty far with integrating the new Safari 4 beta engine:  it's now integrated into our internal builds of OmniWeb 6, and we're bringing that work back to OmniWeb 5 so it can make it into the 5.9 sneaky peek builds.

Come visit OmniWeb's sneaky peek page and see what we've been up to!

 

Comments

Any more hints about the coming version 6? new features?

Christoph

03.06.09 5:08 AM

I would prefer seeing a UI redisgn.


OmniWeb is so… Panther or Tiger

Alejandro

03.06.09 5:12 AM

I actually like the UI design. The tabs on the side are SOOOO much better. I thought I would hate it at first, but eventually its much nicer than Safari's or FireFox's tabs.


Regardless, I'm glad to see my fears weren't realized and that development is continuing. I can't wait until the Safari 4 WebKit engine is integrated into OW- its going to be sweet AND fast.

Matt

03.06.09 7:00 AM

[...] OmniGroup blog had this interesting tidbit today: We’ve also gotten pretty far with integrating the new Safari 4 [...]

» OmniWeb 5.9.x, 6, and Safari 4

03.06.09 7:03 AM

I prefer the tabs on the side because of wide screen displays. Vertical height is precious!

Darcy

03.06.09 7:19 AM

Agreed. Tabs on the side have been preference since Opera. None of the Firefox plugins actually work to duplicate it.


With screens going widescreen I'd assume we'd see more people wanting this. Otoh lots of people keep the dock on the bottom too I guess.


Dock left, Omniweb tabs right!

@luomat

03.06.09 8:25 AM

any news on implementing support for multiple logins on a single domain? i figure that should be a pretty high priority, as nearly every other browser out there (including safari & camino) supports this in one way or another.


i know, i know, this has been mentioned on the forums a whole bunch. but after about two years of this subject being brought up time and time again, there has been no real news from omni on it at all.

akb

03.06.09 9:53 AM

Blessed news! Try as I might I cannot abandon OmniWeb for Safari 4. I knew OmniWeb wasn't being put out to pasture, but I was still worried that development might slow down. This puts my mind at ease. Thanks to Ken and all at Omni.

pbronson

03.09.09 12:49 AM

I will love you forever if you keep developing this product.


I'm an unpaid evangelist for OmniGroup products, so the least you can do is to repay me by continuing development of your hidden gem.


Now give us a proper Find function too!  (It can't be that difficult to implement a Safari-like Find…)

Chucky

03.10.09 10:26 AM

oh my god !  future Omniweb 6 !


new webkit integration in omniweb 5 !


but my, I would have pay for that!


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I love the sidebar tabs. there are visual, they don't take vertical space (I have plenty of horizontal space). I love them !


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the bookmarks managements is still superior to safari.

oomu

03.10.09 2:00 PM

I like the tabs on the side, too; I think the “old school look” from the UI comes from using the drawer metaphor, I think. The modern look seems to be using the “source list” borrowed from iTunes (and now in Finder, Mail, Path Finder, etc. etc.)


Whether that's really appropriate for OmniWeb is another question, of course—in all the other examples, you're really browsing “sources” of something (folders, music libraries, mailboxes), whereas OW's tabs are more like individual documents. On the flip side, the plugin for TextMate that makes it use a source list rather than a drawer for projects is a notable aesthetic improvement. So.


I'd personally just be happy with a couple changes: letting it use Safari's actual bookmark system, so bookmarks stay in sync with your iPhone would be great. Delicious integration is more pie-in-the-sky, but it'd also be great.

Watts

03.12.09 4:07 AM
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