The Omni Group Announces OmniWeb 5.0

[Scott M.]

Instability when surfing eBay has been corrected in version 5 and we 
will be including that fix in an update to 4.5.  If you are 
experiencing frequent crashes that do not seem to be related to eBay, 
please contact us using the 'Send Feedback...' item in OmniWeb's Help 
menu.  For the fastest possible diagnosis of the problem, it would be 
useful if you could include the text of one or more CrashCatcher 
reports.

Regarding cookies, OmniWeb 5.0 includes a completely new cookies 
interface including a 'passive cookie prompt' in the new browser status 
bar that allows you to manage cookies for a particular site without 
having to open preferences or have prompting turned on all the time.

I am sorry that you are so disappointed with OmniWeb.  Hopefully 
OmniWeb 4.5.1 will address some of the issues that you have, and I hope 
that you will also give version 5 a try when it is released.



Sincerely,


Scott M.
The Omni Group


On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 09:10  AM, Phill R Kenoyer wrote:

> All I wanted from Omniweb was a fast, stable browser.  I wanted 
> tool-tips for titles (like other browsers), I wanted a way to turn 
> cookies on for the site I'm looking at via hot key, and I wanted the 
> settings to be sane like other browsers (IE borders default to 1 for 
> anchor tags).  What I bought was a buggy browser that I can't even 
> use.  4.5 is terrible.  It crashes way way too much and it's the 
> slowest of all browsers.  There are things I really love about it, and 
> I bought it for those reasons.  But I can't use it because it crashes 
> left and right.
>
> Now version 5 is coming out.  I have to pay again if I want to use it. 
>  I don't think I'm going to pay for v5 after getting burned on v4.5.  
> I'm done.  I'll just use Safari if I have to.  I even bought a copy 
> for my wife, who will not even use it because she uses eBay and OW4.5 
> is useless for eBay.  So I have two copies of OW that I don't use.
>
> What a shame.  I'm very disappointed.